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July 2009

Excerpt from Breast Cancer? Breast Health!

By Susan Weed

An anti-cancer lifestyle is not a rigid set of rules to follow, but a safe space to be filled with your favorite ways of nourishing health and discouraging cancer. Since cancer thrives in a too-ordered situation, relax and let chaos give a hand now and then in the execution of your plan. I include all the following elements in my anti-cancer lifestyle. Were I to be diagnosed with cancer, I would continue to do these things in addition to any other remedies I might choose.

Stay in touch with my own daily and seasonal rhythms.
Sleep in total darkness or moonlight; get into the sun daily.
Eat one meal at the same time each day.
Have emotional outlets.
Choose friends who support me and my truth.
Have artistic outlets.
Receive lots of appreciation and approval (a.k.a. love).
Exercise one hour three times a week.
Get a massage once a month or more.
Do my yoga practice once a week or more.
Have sexual outlets.
Take a quiet time of beingness daily.
Make full use of all sources of joy available to me.
Eat a Mediterranean-style diet of mostly organically grown foods including daily use of cabbage family plants, raw and cooked greens, whole grains, beans, sunflower seeds, soy products, olive oil, garlic, seasonal fresh fruit, seaweed, yogurt and cheese, herbal infusions, herbal vinegars, and antioxidant seasonings. Plus, at least four times a month, seafood, nuts, mushrooms, dried fruit, and eggs; and, less than four times a month, meat, alcohol, white sugar, and coffee.
And I avoid: Vitamin/mineral supplements, chlorine, nitrates, tobacco, prescription hormones, TV, white flour, processed foods, and non-organic animal products

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Susun S. Weed is the author of four highly-acclaimed books on herbs and women’s health: Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Years, Healing Wise, New Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way and Breast Cancer? Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way.

Ms. Weed lectures world-wide on women’s health and herbal medicine. From her home in New York State’s Catskill Mountains, she directs the activities of the Wise Woman Center, acts as editor-in-chief of Ash Tree Publishing, personally oversees the work of 400 correspondence students, and trains herbal and shamanic apprentices. Susun has lived the simple life for nearly 40 years as an herbalist, goatkeeper, homesteader, and feminist. She has been called “a true radical – deeply rooted,” “a modern pioneer,” and “one of the founding mothers of herbal medicine in the United States.”

Susun Weed will be presenting a three day workshop, October 9-11, 2009 at Maywood Environmental Center in Sheboygan. Topics will include menopause, nutrition and women’s health issues. More information and registration are available at: www.moonwiseherbs.com.