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StephN · 06-01-2012, 11:24 AM

Hi LL -

Great thread, as we revisit Soy.

Do you have any farmer's markets where you live? They are now open in my area and most of the vendors, if not certified organic, have pesticide free produce.

We have many Asian vendors and they do sell edemame at times.

Whole Foods just opened a new (huge - was an old Circuit City location) store 10 minutes up the road from my home. They tend to be more expensive than other choices I have for buying organic and non-GMO.

Most regular chain stores now have a "natural" foods section, or sections in various parts of the store. You have to do some more careful study of the choices, but I do find some items to buy in those sections.

There are meat and egg vendors at the farmer's markets as well. The items are more expensive, but really good. Once in a while I treat us.

06-01-2012, 11:24 AM	#12
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Re: The story on Soy for Her 2 Hi LL - Great thread, as we revisit Soy. Do you have any farmer's markets where you live? They are now open in my area and most of the vendors, if not certified organic, have pesticide free produce. We have many Asian vendors and they do sell edemame at times. Whole Foods just opened a new (huge - was an old Circuit City location) store 10 minutes up the road from my home. They tend to be more expensive than other choices I have for buying organic and non-GMO. Most regular chain stores now have a "natural" foods section, or sections in various parts of the store. You have to do some more careful study of the choices, but I do find some items to buy in those sections. There are meat and egg vendors at the farmer's markets as well. The items are more expensive, but really good. Once in a while I treat us. __________________ "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest." H.D. Thoreau Live in the moment. MY STORY SO FAR ~~~~ Found suspicious lump 9/2000 Lumpectomy, then node dissection and port placement Stage IIB, 8 pos nodes of 18, Grade 3, ER & PR - Adriamycin 12 weekly, taxotere 4 rounds 36 rads - very little burning 3 mos after rads liver full of tumors, Stage IV Jan 2002, one spot on sternum Weekly Taxol, Navelbine, Herceptin for 27 rounds to NED! 2003 & 2004 no active disease - 3 weekly Herceptin + Zometa Jan 2005 two mets to brain - Gamma Knife on Jan 18 All clear until treated cerebellum spot showing activity on Jan 2006 brain MRI & brain PET Brain surgery on Feb 9, 2006 - no cancer, 100% radiation necrosis - tumor was still dying Continue as NED while on Herceptin & quarterly Zometa Fall-2006 - off Zometa - watching one small brain spot (scar?) 2007 - spot/scar in brain stable - finished anticoagulation therapy for clot along my port-a-catheter - 3 angioplasties to unblock vena cava 2008 - Brain and body still NED! Port removed and scans in Dec. Dec 2008 - stop Herceptin - Vaccine Trial at U of W begun in Oct. of 2011 STILL NED everywhere in Feb 2014 - on wing & prayer 7/14 - Started twice yearly Zometa for my bones Jan. 2015 checkup still shows NED 2015 Neuropathy in feet - otherwise all OK - still NED. Same news for 2016 and all of 2017. Nov of 2017 - had small skin cancer removed from my face. Will have Zometa end of Jan. 2018.