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What are your healthy recipes for someone living with prostate cancer?
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@heavyphil - Hey ya, Phil. I tend to take it to the opposite extreme when I chime in on these diet threads. Not quite sure why that is. I don't begrudge anyone who wants to find a way to minimize cancer risk but completely changing your diet to Mediterranean, or Hollywood, or whatever the flavor of the month is, isn't going to do it. IMO the biggest thing that gets lost in these discussions is moderation. If you're consuming contact cement to catch that little buzz, you should probably stop. Eating a tuna fillet, every now and then, is good for you, rich in Omega 3's and the like. Eating a tuna fillet every day will cause mercury build up in your system with all associated neurological side effects thereof. Most of us here already have cancer. Cutting out cheeseburgers isn't going to change that.
Cancer is hard enough without putting your system through drastic changes to your diet and eating things that you don't normally eat. Eat what you want, just do so responsibly.
Since I tend to rock the boat here, I think I'll try to stay out of these diet threads from now on. Well bye, time to feed the critters. Good to hear from you, Phil.
Last night's dinner...
Quail Marsala
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@mjp0512 Amen, brother!! Dr Zeke Emanuel just came out with a ‘longevity’ book called ‘Eat Your Ice Cream!’
It seems that the key to a long life is more than just eating ‘good’ and ‘healthy’ food.
Obsessing over your stringent dietary requirements (while cheerfully telling the world “But I LOVE eating organic cardboard!’) gets you nothing but misery.
As it turns out, eating full fat dairy ice cream with sugar LOWERS a person’s risk for diabetes and heart disease…and they don’t know why!
Perhaps the endorphin rush of that Butter Pecan or Mint Chip does the trick?🤔
This week’s New Yorker has an article about longevity as well - especially those Blue Zones where everyone lives well past age 100.
Turns out, much of it is total BS - most of these places suffered catastrophic events (war, earthquakes, etc) which wiped out census records.
When a new census was taken, many people falsified their ages for a variety of reasons or used the Japanese (or other local) calendars to mark their age.
Okinawans, the poster children for longevity, eat more KFC than anywhere in Japan, have the highest BMI and one third of the people smoke!
You are not the squeaky wheel on this forum by any means. I, too, find myself perplexed by people ( not just here on the forum, but in general) who think moderation isn’t enough.
They really believe that a silver bullet or some combo of ‘superfoods’🤭 and supplements is going to allow them to live cancer free into their 120’s…gimme a break!
BTW, that Quail Marsala looks delicious😋!
Phil