In her article “I Did Everything Right And I Still Got Breast Cancer,” Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz gives her voice to the “Cancer prevention” that Cancer.org staff, in “Diet and Physical Activity: What’s the Cancer Connection?” seems to want to defend. I say “seems” because, like Suzanne, I’m not exactly sure there are ways to really prevent cancer. If it’s anything like what Cancer.org is adovcating when they call for a life of being physically active and eating healthy foods with a focus on plant-based foods then, I’m all for their program. But if it’s something that only a few can do and see results….well, then we have a problem.
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She wants to know why she did everything she could but still ended up with this unfortunate disease. “I received weekly Ayurvedic body therapy, I re-examined all my herbs and supplements with my integrative internal medicine doctor. I took another hard look at my diet, ate more healing foods (like warm milk with ghee, rose petal jam, coconut oil and classic Ayurvedic chavanprash) and I ate less animal protein. I backed off on the harder-core aspects of my exercise regimen in order to nourish my whole self.”(32) Ultimately, Gilberg-Lenz tells us some of her “prevention” tips she took to help lower her risk of obtaining cancer. She did such prevention methods on a regularly basis. Did you catch the word “regularly”? Yes. it’s fortunate. Not many people can keep up with this regularly and not just do it once in a blue moon. But Gilberg-Lenz clearly thought that if she stayed physically active and had a good diet she would be in the clear of …show more content…
In my opinion I don 't think you can. The reason for this because I was hit at home with the reality. By this I mean my father was diagnosed with cancer.He exercised day in and out, stayed a healthy weight and ate the healthiest. Finding out was such a shock because my dad really did everything like Cancer.org reccommed to do. However he still managed to obtain cancer. I feel like you can try all you want to not get the unfortunate disease but if the disease wants you then it wants you . You can 't stop it from coming, all you can really do is just lower the
Cancer.org articles takes the form of a information text. The staff lets you know all the possible ways …show more content…
She wants to know why she did everything she could but still ended up with this unfortunate disease. “I received weekly Ayurvedic body therapy, I re-examined all my herbs and supplements with my integrative internal medicine doctor. I took another hard look at my diet, ate more healing foods (like warm milk with ghee, rose petal jam, coconut oil and classic Ayurvedic chavanprash) and I ate less animal protein. I backed off on the harder-core aspects of my exercise regimen in order to nourish my whole self.”(32) Ultimately, Gilberg-Lenz tells us some of her “prevention” tips she took to help lower her risk of obtaining cancer. She did such prevention methods on a regularly basis. Did you catch the word “regularly”? Yes. it’s fortunate. Not many people can keep up with this regularly and not just do it once in a blue moon. But Gilberg-Lenz clearly thought that if she stayed physically active and had a good diet she would be in the clear of …show more content…
In my opinion I don 't think you can. The reason for this because I was hit at home with the reality. By this I mean my father was diagnosed with cancer.He exercised day in and out, stayed a healthy weight and ate the healthiest. Finding out was such a shock because my dad really did everything like Cancer.org reccommed to do. However he still managed to obtain cancer. I feel like you can try all you want to not get the unfortunate disease but if the disease wants you then it wants you . You can 't stop it from coming, all you can really do is just lower the