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[native pepper]

Terry many seek a longer life beyond the expected time frame, to me it's not quantity of life I seek, but quality. As far as longevity is concerned, we have no control over that because of circumstances beyond our control. However we do have control over the quality of our lives and as almost all modern negative health conditions are dietary and lifestyle related, it's something we have full control over if it's important enough to us.

Until the late 20th century, we had no idea of the dietary requirements of humans so crap food was the norm. Today we have a wealth of knowledge of what's good and bad for our systems, as well as the ability and attainable knowledge to keep our health in good shape.

I didn't expect to live until 30 with the medical prognosis I was given at 26, let alone 79, but here I am and healthier than I've every been, allowing me to have a very good quality of life today. The only thing that stops others from having the same quality of life, is themselves and their refusal to take control of their bodies, but that's the norm for some reason and nothing I can do about it, or really care.

The saying we are what we eat, is a profound reality and yet no one take any notice, they prefer to accept the lies and propaganda fed to them by the profit growth corporate world. Take diary products, the propaganda claims you have to eat more for strong bones and good health, but the scientific and medical facts are the opposite. The countries that consume the most dairy products, are the sickest and have the highest rates of osteoporosis, heart disease, organ failure, joint collapse and cancer. Add processed foods and drinks loaded with fossil oil chemicals and the long term health results are a forgone conclusion, backed up by statistical fact.

In the past tried helping others with the knowledge I'd gained, but quickly realised just about everyone just wants someone else to do it for them and don't want to take responsibility for their health, assuming the pharmacological driven medical profession will fix them up. If that were the case, we'd all be fit and healthy, well healthy anyway. But the opposite is true and the vast majority pass away from long term painful conditions which are pretty easy to fix, unless the condition has gone beyond the ability of our bodies to fix and regenerate effected parts.

So leave others to their own devises and sadly have lost just about every friend and family I have, but find it hard to not at least try sometimes to offer alternatives to others and still find rejection and in most cases off handed dismissal. Luckily have real medical and biological science on my side, so rejection doesn't effect me only makes me sad about the deep fear people have of change and different approaches to life which would enhance their being and give them a better quality life.

It's only after I offer advise, realise have made another mistake and others aren't interested and actually hate me for revealing some truth to them they just don't want to hear. But it's really hard to not offer advise you know works, just in case some one actually listens, makes their own investigations and takes a different healthier path in their lives. So have now made another mistake here, when should just leave others to the destiny they have chosen and shut my mouth.

[Greynomad]

Saw a piece on the interweb last night which sums it up perfectly.

On your tombstone there are two dates: the date you were born and the date you died.
They are separated by a dash, which encompasses all you did between those dates.
Don't dash through life, but make sure your dash counts.

[T1 Terry]

NP, and Ray, my life has been overflowing with the crazy things I've done, diet was never gunna fix some of the injuries from living life a tad beyond the limits .... would I change it if I had the chance ... maybe a few of them if I got to take the memories of the outcomes, but then I probably would have tried even crazier things and not cheated the grim reaper, then missed out on doing the other crazy stuff .....

That dash between the beginning and end dates, can seem to take forever for some people, but if you lived your life the way you wanted and not the way you were told you should live it, then every is a memory, some maybe regrets, but as long as the good out does the bad, it is a life worth living ... however long or short that happens to be .... no idea if you only get one crack at it ..... how good would it be to have a second go at it

T1 Terry

[Shirley]

I agree with native pepper, everyone should strive to eat a good healthy diet, you are what you eat & drink.
Secondly we should all protect ourselves from the sun, so good that kids aren’t allowed in the playground at most schools these days without their hat.

[Greynomad]

Another thought I picked up many years ago:

The aim is not to arrive at your gravesite perfectly preserved and spotless after a careful life, but to come rushing up, somewhat dishevelled, slide to a halt and crash into it saying, “Wow! What a ride THAT was!”

[T1 Terry]

I agree with native pepper, everyone should strive to eat a good healthy diet, you are what you eat & drink.
Secondly we should all protect ourselves from the sun, so good that kids aren’t allowed in the playground at most schools these days without their hat.

Remember going to the beach all through late spring to early autumn, no sun screen, and very dark tans that held out till early spring. The first good day in the sun resulted in last yrs tan layer peeling off but the layer under it wasn't lily white .... Near a death sentence to consider doing that these days and coconut oil tanning lotions are for the solarium, not for going out in the sun where you can get sunburnt through a T shirt .....

I believe in a sensible diet, avoid excessively processed foods .... fortunately grapes as considered a fruit and a medium level of processing makes the juice much easier to consume in moderate quantities ..... and beer is considered a food, the darker the closer to a meal than a snack

Less than 6 mths and I clock up the three score yrs and 10 that is supposed to my allotment, out lived every member of my family, more yrs than my parents and the next milestone is the uncles and grandparents, yrs live that is, even the cousins are dropping off these days ... have a few ex wives to outlive so I can return their wish to dance on the grave

T1 Terry

[Shirley]

Terry think all beach lovers laid out in the sun smothered in coconut oil to get that desired tan when we were young, maybe why I had a melanoma off my arm several years ago, I’ve had so many small cancer’s frozen I’ve lost count & recently had the surgery on my nose to have a nasty cancer removed, just remembered i had a cancer removed off the side of my face surgically years ago too, i encourage my g’kids to wear sunscreen lotion & hats.

Ray you can still have a great life enjoying yourself & being healthy at the same time, everything in moderation I say, just enjoying a scotch on the rocks it is Christmas time.

[native pepper]

Another thought I picked up many years ago:

The aim is not to arrive at your gravesite perfectly preserved and spotless after a careful life, but to come rushing up, somewhat dishevelled, slide to a halt and crash into it saying, “Wow! What a ride THAT was!”

Ray, the majority roll up to their grave stupefied with drugs to dull the pain they are in, irrelevant to their lives. Eating a really healthy diet and active lifestyle is not a careful life, but a rational logical one. My life has been far from careful, but filled with adventure, learning and exciting fun, many times a bit beyond that and sometime pretty scary. It's my diet which has got me through to where I'm enjoying this time of life more than most and still capable of doing most things did when younger, not something most around my age can claim.

A careful life is one spent in an office, school room or in only one or two careers, going round and round the same life circle day after day and adhering to the norms of society so you don't make waves or be responsibly different. Speaking of waves, time for a surf as everyone will still be in bed recovering from their careful normal lives celebrating fantasy land things.

[Dot]

One thing I did find out by having those episodes is that if I had of died then I would not of known about it, no knowledge of anything going on and no pain. I did say that if the big C came back and there was no chance of survival I would start smoking again because I enjoyed it. Can't eat healthy or unhealthy food now so I have what I can get down without any worries. I do know that choking to death is NOT a nice way to go. I'm also in the voluntary end of life group. Every one has their own ideas and beliefs and should be able to able to do their thing.

[Greynomad]

Update for the New Year:
Spent FOUR HOURS on NYE “celebrating” my first dose of chemotherapy.
Apparently the procedure is taken very slowly with the first dose to watch for bad reactions. Nothing happened.
Then the nurse came in with a little gift for me to wear for the next two days… a small pressurised bottle within which was suspended what looked like a cut-down condom (I kid you not!) filled with a liquid dose of whatever had just been slowly pumped into me. She connected it to my under-skin port and tucked the bottle into a handy-dandy free bumbag for me to wear. It was being forced by the air pressure through a flow-controlled valve into my port.
I was back at hospital this afternoon for the nurse to safely remove and dispose of it. Cytotoxic — so can’t just be tossed in the garbage bin at home.
Future bottles (one after every fortnightly treatment) will be removed by District Nurse to save me the 100km round trip.
Theoretically this will be my life for the next three months.
Could be longer — or shorter — depending on how the cancer reacts.
The “Patient Information Sheets” (about 20 pages!) listed dozens of potential reactions and problems of gradually increasing severity. A veritable table of horrors — none of which have occurred.
I still feel fine, looking healthy, free of pain and temperature annoyingly normal.
The only problem I have encountered is that, with all the fluids being pumped into me, some has got to come out… very frequently!