Animal Products Cancer
Wine consumption helps with longevity outcome after colon cancer diagnosis.
Viruses in red meat cause colon cancer.
Stomach cancer caused by red meat.
Streptocuccus Bovis (Heart valve inflammation, colon cancer, prenatal sepsis, meningitis.)
Significant association between gastric cancers and Sreptocuccus Bovis
Egg Consumption and Cancer of the Colon
Animal Products Associated With Mouth and Esophageal Cancers
Halving meat consumption would cut heart and cancer rates. (Reality behind intermittent fasting.)
The Answer to All Your Problems :)
Woke up at six this morning to a full chorus of birds.
Are you waking up every morning as happy as a bird? If you aren’t, why aren’t you?
Habits. We all have a set of habits that guide our existence. The habits may not be conducive to living a happy and healthy life, but they are comfortable to us. Most everyone who has changed their habits didn’t initiate change until their habit caused so much physical or emotional pain that they had no choice but to eliminate the habit.
Every bad habit has a point of no-return, no-recovery. For smokers it is lung cancer; meat eaters it’s heart disease or colon cancer; overeaters of processed food it’s diabetes & heart disease; for non-exercisers it’s everything: depression, diabetes, heart disease, cancer, every health problem magnified.
Many people, even when acutely aware of the pain, refuse to change. “I’d rather die than give up eating meat,” a friend with congestive heart failure, diabetes and a history of multiple cancers told me. We all know the hacking smoker who continues to light up the death sticks.
Comfortable habits — smoking, not exercising, drinking to inebriation, fast food, keeping the same uninspiring job, scheduling our life around the television — they’re all harmless at first, but over the years they take their toll on our health and sanity. Intellectually, we know we should discard the habit, change our ways, read a self-help book, sell everything and move to a mountaintop yet the habit immobilizes us.
We realize the habit is holding us back. Keeping us from being the best person we can be, but we can’t kill the habit because it has been with us so long that our entire existence has been built around it. If we removed it, life as we now experience it would change. And that scares the hell out of us. Even if that change would be an improvement for us and those around us.
We’d rather cling to the comfort of our misery because we know and understand that. However, we don’t know and understand what lies ahead if we eradicate a habit that has defined us for decades.
Your life has been built around your habits: your friends, your recreational pursuits, your occupation, your degree of happiness. So once this foundation has been built after decades of concrete reinforcement, changing a habit is like blowing up one of those Nazi machine gun bunkers that dot the beaches of Normandy: close to impossible. Despite the bombardment, the bunkers still stand almost seventy years later, while the people who hid inside of them died defending the edifice, even in the face of futility and certain death.
How do you destroy your own bunker? Instead of obsessing about the habit that is causing you so much misery, embrace a new habit that will work to offset the effects of the bad habit. In the best case, the new habit will drive out the bad habit. In the worst case, at least you’re doing something to ameliorate the effects of the bad habit.
There are all sorts of positive habits that you can embrace. However, there is a one-size, fits-all uber-habit that you can use to boost your health, lose weight, battle depression, improve your looks, delay aging, and increase your happiness.
Daily exercise.
Move throughout your day. Moving forward, powered by your own two feet will lead you to new positive places, new positive points of view, a lower jean size. It’s not that easy to eat or smoke, surf the web, watch porn, gamble, or drink alcohol when one is striding down the sidewalk or a country lane whistling with the birds.
The more you walk, the less you engage your bad habits. The more you walk the healthier you become. The more you walk the better your body looks. The more you walk the longer you live. The more you walk the happier you will be.
Whenever you’re beating yourself up for not being able to change your habits, go for a walk. You will improve your life with each step you take.
Bouquet of wildflowers I picked from a hike in the woods.
Studies have shown that children who play outside, near trees are calmer than children who have no exposure to the natural world.
Studies have shown that daily exercise has a better success rate for alleviating depression than do anti-depressant drugs or placebos.
Studies show that people who walk on uneven surfaces (outdoors) burn more calories and are fitter than people who walk on treadmills or sidewalks.
I could go on and on and on about all the benefits of exercising outdoors. But the best way to understand all the benefits is to start exercising outdoors and instantly reap the benefits.
Listen and smile with cheerfulness as the birds serenade you. Feel alive with the breeze caressing your cheeks. Understand and be at peace with the life cycle of birth, death, rebirth, as you walk under the trees in every season. Understand that 99% of your angst is the result of you being born a natural free spirit but that you now find yourself straight-jacketed in an unnatural lifestyle and environment.
If you want to experience freedom, you need to step out of your cage.
Farrah lounging at the farm.
A dog needs to be walked every day for its health and well-being.
The same formula applies to humans.
Libby Pratt, Camp Biche
This week, we have been going out hiking before sunrise. Here is a photo from this morning of the sun rising over the foggy Lot River Valley between Luzech and Douelle.
Each of us only have a finite number of days. Celebrate and honor each day of your precious allotment by only doing what you want to do.
Your only rule being that you will be compassionate towards all living creatures, including yourself.
