12 foods you should eat twice a week
Someone sent me this article from the Times; pleased to see it contains many of the foods I have been eating for the past two and a half years, although raspberries are hard to […]
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Decca Aitkenhead’s top tips for surviving #chemo
If you were born after 1960, the odds that you will get cancer in your lifetime are now one in two. It is an extraordinary statistic. Even if you turn out […]
I’m still here – record-breaking run by cancer survivor
Nicky Spinks is a great example of a cancer sufferer who has achieved great things through positive thinking and maintaining her fitness levels. I’m not in her league but I […]
Can diet really help beat #diabetes?
Thanks yet again to The Guardian website and Richard Doughty for this interesting article. Posting it in the general search for health and well-being
Why I don’t drink fruit juices or smoothies!
For years now I have avoided drinking shop-bought smoothies and fruit juices. Instead I bought a juicer and make my own. In general I am not a smoothie drinker due to the dairy content and I […]
Good news for breast cancer sufferers
This week the good news just keeps coming! Using Herceptin in combination with another drug can shrink tumours in less than two weeks, study finds. The findings could potentially lead to […]
Some delicious foodie pics from Laos..
I recently visited Laos for a couple of weeks and the food there is delicious. Very fresh, herby and not particularly spicy. I will be experimenting with recipes soon, but […]
The immune system: great new hope in #cancer treatment
As my secondary will be lung cancer, should I be so unlucky as to get a secondary cancer (and the whole point of this website is about how NOT to […]
#T-cell therapy offers hope for blood cancer patients
Great news for blood cancer sufferers; I have two friends with leukaemia so was very pleased to read this today. Let’s hope it can help them too. A scanning electron micrograph […]
Limit drinking to 3-4 days pw to avoid cancer & reduce to 14 units pw
The New Year really is a time for hair shirts all round. But this latest research again endorses my new lifestyle changes and advises limiting drinking to 3-4 days week, […]
healthy living with cancer 