Posts Tagged ‘cancer’
When Someone Else has Cancer – 5 Important Things to Remember
When a friend or family member diagnosed with cancer, your life can be thrown into turmoil. To help you keep grounded, stop and consider these 5 points:
1. This is not your fault. However tempted you to believe that cancer is the fact that you have done or not done, it is extremely unlikely to be. You are not to blame.
2. This is not your job to make them well. If you are a parent of a child with cancer, you probably will be involved in decisions about their treatment. In any other case, a person with cancer would choose the best course in consultation with a group of health professionals they want to attract. There are many things that they can do to influence the outcome of the disease. You may be called upon to provide support and assistance, and to receive their work and theirs alone.
3. They are all the same person they were before cancer. They are faced with the problem, and their personality can change as a result – either for a short time or forever. But they have not suddenly become a lesser person, or the victim. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cancer
Green Tea for Good Health?
Good health, fitness and weight loss? Green tea could be the answer you are looking for. For thousands of years it has been known to promote good health in nearly every possible way. Research has found time and again that it can lower cholesterol, reduce heart disease, fight cancer, boost immunity and give you great skin!
How is this possible you might ask? Well, research has shown that green tea burns more calories and is a powerful anti-oxidant. That it not only inhibits the growth of cancer cells, it kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue.
More importantly green tea is known to calm the mind. What could such a mind achieve? Anything! Think about it. We could set our minds on what we want to do and achieve it. Even if the day is hectic, one doesn’t feel it. You have the energy to finish all the office work, ordinary chores and go to the gym or for a long walk. A combination of the right food, right exercise and the right mind-set can achieve wonders. Any thing that one does is with the right focus and the results speak for themselves. The Zen monks call it mindfulness. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cancer, cholesterol