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04-10-2007, 05:56 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Grand Rapids, MI
Posts: 1,516
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???? about Mona Vie Drink
Goodmorning everyone. As many of you already know, I am the "resident" Breast Cancer Diet worshipper and am so used to doing it know that I actually am able to get 13-16 fruits and vegetables in my diet without any effort (NOW there's no effort, in the beginning I thought "oh my gosh, how am I going to do it", but as I told a friend yesterday, it is all in the Phytochemical shake (which has 4 fruits and veg...I don't care for garbanzo beans on salads, so I put them in my shake) and a salad every day for lunch except 1 which is my "treat day"...usually Sunday... and the salad has between 3-5 veg...Monday I add the artichokes and shiitake mushrooms and the basic salad is the greens, tomato and cruciferous vegetable) as well as a fruit with my breakfast and lunch, 2 veg with my dinner and maybe another fruit for dessert. 2 of my friends have become distributors for 2 different "health drinks" one Kat also promotes...Juice Plus and a new one I just heard about Mona Vie. I've done a "little searching" for info on both and know very little about them. I wouldn't mind trying each (though nothing could convince me to give up my diet...I know my personal feeling about that vs. supplements, health drinks etc, but I will keep my feelings to myself as I also feel that everyone needs to do what makes THEM feel happy and I won't sabatoge anyones opinions) and would mostly be doing them "as a friend" to TRY them, but would like more information on them. Thanks everyone. Take care and God bless.
Rhonda
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Rhonda
Dx 2/1/05, Stage 1, 0 nodes, Grade 3, ER/PR-, HER2+ (3.16 Fish)
2/7/05, Partial Mastectomy
5/18/05 Finished 6 rounds of dose dense TEC (Taxotere, Epirubicin and Cytoxan)
8/1/05 Finished 33 rads
8/18/05 Started Herceptin, every 3 weeks for a year (last one 8/10/06)
2/1/13...8 year Cancerversary and I am "perfect" (at least where cancer is concerned;)
" And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."- Abraham Lincoln
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04-10-2007, 02:31 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Central Florida
Posts: 503
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Funny... I was just talking to a tree farm owner today that is growing the plant that provides the "mona-vie" you wrote about. From what I was told, the current Mona Vie product on the market is not pure "mona-vie", its 20% of the phyto-chemical and 80% juice of apple or cranberry (mostly from concentrate). Like many of the "this will prolong your life" products out there, I am hesitant to endorse anything. They are just potions with savvy marketing skills. Vitamins in a bottle that go rancid if exposed to oxygen. (which is why they need to be refrigerated as soon as you open a bottle).
Seems to me your healthy approach to eating is probably the best thing you can do. If you want phyto-chemicals, you are getting them in the stuff you are already eating!
Another thing about the mona-vie type juices is that they come predominantly from countries that have no restrictions on pesticide use... so, how healthy is it really?
Maria (MTS)
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04-11-2007, 06:48 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Mesa, Az
Posts: 219
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I take juice plus
I take juice plus pills, I have a lot of allergies to fruits and vegies and I can take the pills without problems. I had to quit taking then during radiation, But now back on them. It is a whole food product one with veggies the other with fruit. It is sold by individual distributors, price is not too bad and my 6 yr old gets chewables for free. www.juiceplus.com. It has helped my skin, gums and overall feeling good.
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dx 1/06 IDC 2cm 38 at dx
2/06 L mast nodes 3/9+ SNB neg ER-/Pr - her2 + Stg 4 liver/pelvis
3/06-9/06Taxol/Carbo/zometa/Herceptin
3/07 6 brain mets WBR down to c-2
4/07 osteonecrosis jaw
1/08 mri new 9mm lesion right lower side
2/08 gamma knife 1 lesion 11/08 regamma
10/09 latent rad necrosis to brain met,
1/20/10 crani: lesion necrosis w active cells continue her add tykerb
1/11 NED just Ingrown toenail! YEAH GOD
8/11 Tykerb, herceptin weekly, elevated her2 levels, negative scans
oct -march 11 new neuro deficits lower legs
3/12 2 spinal metsTykerb, Herceptin
04/12 4050cGY rads T 2-4 & T7-9
5/12 Brain,cervical lumbar clear/thoracic slight decrease
10/12 t 2-4 shrunk t-9 grew start Xeloda, 02/13 stop xeloda,5/13 on metformin, decadron, Tykerb, iv and IT herceptin 5/30/13 total #11 #2 of 80mg dose weekly.
9/13 100mg of IT her, IV hern, 750 mg tykerb, 3mg dec.
last Mri T--3 SHRUNK t7-9 shrunk no edema. Left shift in CBC bone marrow BX negative.
10/13 Ct has shown Double left ureters with stones/cysts in them, after 3 births and lots and U/S iit takes cancer to figure out you have 2 smaller ureters going into 1 kidney!
12/13 Mri brain no new lesions, cervical and lumbar arthritis.
Tspine lesion at T3 stable, T 7-9 GROWTH lots of pain
1/29/14 HIHO HIHO its off to Neuro surgery I go
Life is Good when you wake up in the morning and take a breath and know that God has given me another day.
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04-11-2007, 12:53 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 62
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If you search for "criticism of Juice Plus", you will find a lot of articles discussing some of the problems with this product. I had a friend who wanted me to start taking it, and after reading the articles, I wouldn't waste my money on it.
Laurie
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