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Cancer Myths

Topic: Holistic HealthBy Bonnie MacDade, MH, DSPublished Recently added

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n Cancer. Yea, I'm bringing up the 'C' word, but I believe you'll be happy or at least glad that you read this. Alopathic medical doctors and the AMA, along with drug companies have long had the market cornered on the treatment of cancers and, well, let's be candid here... they've got it all wrong.

Here's a story of two women, my grandmothers, who were born the same year, lived in the same town all their lives but made very different choices.

My dad's mom has always eaten real food (nothing from a box), she never stresses over anything and she gets fresh air and exercise. She still takes the bus from central New Jersey to Manhattan, by herself, whenever she feels like it. A few years back, she broke her ankle stepping off the curb a little funny and the doctor told her it would be a long recovery once the cast came off, but when it did, and he did a new x-ray, nhe could not believe his eyes. She had healed as well as a 20 year old. Today she is 88 years old.

My mom's mom always tried the next new thing. She had the first microwave ove
I ever saw (my dad always made us kids go outside when she ran it!). She had instant mashed potato flakes, and margarine. She always had candy on her coffee ta-nble and chocolate bars in the cupboard. She was very rarely in a good mood. Memories of her laughing are very powerful ones because it happened so infrequently. She got breast cancer. She had a mastectomy and the traditional chemo and radiation ther-napies. She had a few cancer free years after that, but it returned in her bones and she passed away at the age of 78. Her mother lived to be 93 and she did not ever have breast cancer and no one before her did either.

None of our great-grandmothers had breast cancer, so how could it be hereditary? We are doing this to ourselves. And when we tell women that their chances are increased if their mothers had it, it's as good as putting a "curse" on them. Can you nthink of a bigger cause of stress? We need to educate women that it's because of dietary and lifestyle habits that their mothers are passing on, not their genes.
The only cure for cancer is this:
Stop eating it, and stop creating in ourselves with poor lifestyle choices. Then, relax and enjoy a long happy, healthy life! Find a Holistic Practitioner whom you like and feel comfortable with and let him or her guide you. Whether you have cancer or simply want to avoid it, please, PLEASE educate yourself and never ever take the advice of someone just because he or she has a fancy title you can't pronounce. nnn

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About the Author

Bonnie MacDade is a Holistic Health Councilor, nnationally board certified by the American
Association of Drugless Practitioners, and a ngraduate of The Global Institiute for Alte
ative
Medicine, where she earned her certification as a
Master Herbalist, which encompasses the fields nof herbs, vitamins and nutrition. She studied with
Dr. Eric Pearl and is a certified Reconnection
Therapist. She is also a minister who earned her
Doctor of Shamanism through the Universal Life
Seminary.

Trained in body and spirit medicine, it is her ngoal to bridge the gap between nutrition and nspiritual connection for her clients. As a speaker nand teacher at the Citone Institute Massage
School, and in private practice since 1998, she nexplains the link between these seemingly nseparate subjects, and provides practical methods nto obtain the kind of real joy and wellness that nmany of us have not experienced since childhood.