The anti cancer lifestyle
>> April 10, 2009
April is cancer awareness month. My life has been touched very closely by cancer. My grandmother died from cancer. My dad has had cancer twice, prostate and testicular. My aunt died from leukemia, my other aunt is a breast cancer survivor. It quite obvious that cancer is very much in my family, which may put me and my children at greater risk. I certainly cannot worry about that, but I can live my life so that we reduce our risk as much as possible. To me that means implementing strategies to help prevent it.
For my children it has been easy! They have been on a whole foods, healthy living diet since they were born. I also reduce the number is phthalates they come in contact with by keeping the plastic toys to a minimum, storing food in glass, storing water in stainless bottles ect...
For Mike and I this lifestyle has meant getting ourselves to healthy weight and more importantly getting rid of the more dangerous belly (visceral) fat . I am super happy to report that my wonderful husband has lost 35 pounds and counting!! I have lost 15 pounds! And to lose this weight we have been concentrating on a healthy Mediterranean style diet which I believe is one the healthiest and most delicious diets you can follow. We eat alot of fruits and veggies, whole grains, olives and olive oil, nuts and seeds, dark chocolate. We eat very little meat and when we do it's either fish or chicken.
We have been exercising as a family. Walking almost every night. I run in the mornings about 3 times per week and I practice at least 10-15 minutes of yoga every morning.
I think another component of our anti-cancer lifestyle is reducing stress as much as possible. Stress in my opinion can be just as toxic as eating junk or smoking. Yoga really helps with my stress. Mike and I are in the process of hopefully doing something about something that has been a HUGE stress in our marriage for years now :-) and I believe that our entire family will be better off if we can eliminate it.
I hope that by sharing this information I can inspire other families to follow their own healthy living lifestyle!!
xo Sebrina
