Advice re filtered water and avoiding sugar...
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As the article that @kezmusc has basically said - pretty well EVERYTHING you eat breaks down to 'simple sugars' as it is the only way the body can absorb the energy to keep it going - so there is no avoiding 'eating sugar' cos our bodies 'make it' anyway!
Even 'fat/oil' breaks down into simple sugars eventually (but basically with twice as many calories as Carbohydrates and takes longer to break down.)
My basic idea is "everything in moderation - nothing to excess" - as being the best approach to your daily eating habits, whilst maintaining some physical activity, to keep the rest of the body 'working'.
Too much food with too little physical activity = weight gain.
Too much activity with too little food = weigh loss.
Filtered water may remove some micro elements that would be in 'regular' tap water (even if it has fluoride in it) and bore water would have even more elements in it than regular 'dam water', I reckon - but I don't think there are higher chances of getting the Big C because you are in the country or the city ..... but if you are eating healthily (fruit, veg & protein) it should give you a better chance of surviving whatever life throws at us. There is no rhyme nor reason for many of our diagnoses :(
Eat as much 'home cooked' food as you can (vs precooked/packaged food) with lots of fresh veg .... even throw in the odd glass of wine ....
There are a lot of whacky theories out there as to why we get cancer - but no-one actually knows - not even the scientist boffins - or else there should be a drop in the incidence of cancers, not an increase (which would appear to the the current trend :( )
I've always considered that we all have 'cancer in us' - and it just takes something to 'activate it' (be it an injury or other trigger) ..... Genetics would probably have a bit to do with it too - even if we are 'first timers' (like me) in the family to be diagnosed. My father died at age 51 and my mother in her early 70s (I am 65) - so we have no idea 'what' illnesses may have hit them if they'd survived into older ages.
I'm the only one in my family that I am aware of (including my parents & grand parents, 4 siblings & their kids) to be diagnosed with cancer, at this point in time. I reckon it is just bad luck as much as anything else.
All the best with your ongoing treatment & results - and try not to ponder it too deeply - ain't nothing gonna change what's happened xx
Even 'fat/oil' breaks down into simple sugars eventually (but basically with twice as many calories as Carbohydrates and takes longer to break down.)
My basic idea is "everything in moderation - nothing to excess" - as being the best approach to your daily eating habits, whilst maintaining some physical activity, to keep the rest of the body 'working'.
Too much food with too little physical activity = weight gain.
Too much activity with too little food = weigh loss.
Filtered water may remove some micro elements that would be in 'regular' tap water (even if it has fluoride in it) and bore water would have even more elements in it than regular 'dam water', I reckon - but I don't think there are higher chances of getting the Big C because you are in the country or the city ..... but if you are eating healthily (fruit, veg & protein) it should give you a better chance of surviving whatever life throws at us. There is no rhyme nor reason for many of our diagnoses :(
Eat as much 'home cooked' food as you can (vs precooked/packaged food) with lots of fresh veg .... even throw in the odd glass of wine ....
There are a lot of whacky theories out there as to why we get cancer - but no-one actually knows - not even the scientist boffins - or else there should be a drop in the incidence of cancers, not an increase (which would appear to the the current trend :( )
I've always considered that we all have 'cancer in us' - and it just takes something to 'activate it' (be it an injury or other trigger) ..... Genetics would probably have a bit to do with it too - even if we are 'first timers' (like me) in the family to be diagnosed. My father died at age 51 and my mother in her early 70s (I am 65) - so we have no idea 'what' illnesses may have hit them if they'd survived into older ages.
I'm the only one in my family that I am aware of (including my parents & grand parents, 4 siblings & their kids) to be diagnosed with cancer, at this point in time. I reckon it is just bad luck as much as anything else.
All the best with your ongoing treatment & results - and try not to ponder it too deeply - ain't nothing gonna change what's happened xx