Just one of those "I'm curious" surveys!!!!

[RhondaH]

I inherited my fathers sweet tooth and ate SOOOO much sugar not to mention up until 6 mo before dx I was allergic to fish and fowl (can now eat fish) since I was 4yo so the red meat and pork were my only diet (besides sugar). I PERSONALLY think that my cancer was caused by poor diet ( I always thought I was destined to be diabetic/heart attack) as NO one in my family had cancer and what "turned the switch on" was the MAJOR stress I encountered when my father became terminally ill and I was trying to care for him from 100 miles away, work full time, take care of my mother who broke her back while I was caring for my dad AND take care of my 3yo son...I was having MAJOR panic attacks. So much of what I read shows "relations of HER2" to different aspects of diet and insulin. I have SINCE had hardly ANY sugar (only when I bake and a candy bar every week or 2, but honestly they taste SO plastic, I've backed off from them). I eat fish twice a week, vegetarian twice a week and either beef or pork (organic) twice a week (we take turns as to what beef or pork each of us have a taste for then we don't get in a rut) and of COURSE my 9+ fruit and veg a day (I also think that JUST fruit and veg is not the answer, but a VARIETY of nutrient dense fruit and veg...when I unpacked I found a book I had from Readers Digest called Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal...had it for many years and when reading it so much of the fruits and veg I used to eat...corn, pears, etc...have little to NO nutritional value whereas what I eat now are a lot of the cruciferous veg...and I eat them ALL, bitter as they are...but I think these especially will help me stay healthy). I don't think there is one MIRACLE food, but you need to mix them all up. Last week due to my mom being slightly anemic, I made liver and onions (learnt this trick when my red counts during chemo were 8.1 and they wanted to give me procrit and I refused...now in reading I think I made a good choice...my mom would make liver and onions and the iron REALLY helped my reds take off...try it) and my 6 yo son LOVED it. Take care and Good bless.

Rhonda