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Team plans a walk to help mum fight cancer
Kerry McQueeney, www.croydonguardian.co.uk , 30/05/05
Brave mum Michelle Price has been fighting a four-year battle with cancer but with the help of her seven-year-old son and his football team mates, she is hoping to beat the disease once and for all.
Young players from the Selsdon Eagles football club and their parents will be taking part in a five-mile sponsored walk to raise £6,000 to enable Michelle to have treatment at an alternative health centre in the Netherlands.
Michelle, 35, has had cancer in both breasts and is now living with bone cancer on her spine, right shoulder, neck, rib and pelvis. She has had a mastectomy, undergone months of chemotherapy and had her ovaries removed in a bid to stop the cancer advancing.
"I have treatment now to stop my body from producing oestrogen, because my cancer is hormone-based, and have had my ovaries removed, which means I am effectively going through the menopause."
However, since her diagnosis the determined mum-of-two has embarked on a radical lifestyle change which, she says, has improved her health. Following a strict vegan diet, using holistic therapy and having regular reiki healing sessions are all now a big part of Michelle's life.
She added: "I've become my own doctor and I've really noticed a difference."
l The Selsdon Eagles team and their parents will be taking part in the five-mile sponsored walk in Lloyd Park where the team meets every Tuesday to practise on June 11. To sponsor them, call Michelle on 07747 783273.
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The treatment of cancer sufferers at Bristol Cancer Help Centre is to be the subject of a new tv doc.
Living with cancer, a three part programme, narrated by vegan Martin Shaw follows the journey of 6 people from all over the country as they gather at the centre for a week long course.
The centre recommends a vegan diet on its courses.
The Bristol Cancer Help Centre who are celebrating their 25th year are special guests at the Bristol Vegan Fayre 2005.
The first episode will be broadcast on Monday July 4th at 11pm on ITV1.
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Ive forwarded this link to my friend who has a history of breast cancer in the family and she consumes approx, 4 pints of dairy milk in a week!!!!!
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Really great that the http://www.bristolcancerhelp.org/ is there, and that help extends to a vegan diet, and in my view the reiki healing is also important. I wish everyone well, healthy and happy. :)
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Husband, wife and even family dog defy odds to survive cancer.
Read more here. :D
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It is a good advert for veganism but i would rather people became vegan cos they care about animals not just cos they care about their own health :mad:
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Didn't read the article, but I will...thanks for the link!
Protein feeds cancer cells...that's one reason why an animal-free, raw and living cuisine is one of the most healing diets for cancer remedy.
I saw evidence of this on Friday ..one of my Macmillan benefits patients ,who I had previously met a month ago returned for a follow up appointment.
She is a terminal bowel cancer patient (26) with two small boys of 3 and 1 and she struggled to control them during the appointment because she was so very fragile and weak. She told me that she was totally exhausted and suffering extreme bouts of diarrohea .
When she came in Friday I was struck immediately by the difference in both her mood and her apprearance. Her skin and hair were healthier and although stilll painfully weak and thin she appeared to have much more energy. I just assumed that the change was due to her stopping Chemo treament.
But ..she told me that someone had lent her a Vegan cookbook and after only a couple of weeks of eating Vegan she had noticed marked differences including managing to get her diarrohea to managable levels.
She had been so impressed by the changes that she was now feeding her sons a Vegan diet too.
Slack Alice
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Maybe a little of topic but I have a friend who has recently been diagnosed with cancer (she's not vegan). Even though it was caught early, had not spread and was removed surgically, she did have to go through chemotherapy.
I would think an experience like that would change one's lifestyle, but so far she has not changed one bit. She eats no vegetables whatsoever, keeps stuffing herself with processed foods, will eat cookies or crisps as a meal rather than as a snack, will order in pizza's & burgers rather than go for a short 5 minute walk to the grocery store. I tried to encourage her to eat more healthy foods and exercise a little, but she just will not listen. She is almost recovered now, but of course due to her unhealthy lifestyle she feels exhausted all the time and complains of pains and aches. She is constantly in the hospital/at the doctors too. I am beginning to find it outrageous that the health system is being used by such careless behaviour. I really do not get her.
Therefore I just wanted to praise everyone who took this battle against cancer seriously and have opted for a vegan lifestyle to fight the disease. For themselves, for the planet and of course for the animals.