Today in the mail I got three books from a friend:
1. What To Eat Now: The Cancer Lifeline Cookbook
2. The Macrobiotic Cancer Prevention Cookbook
3. The Chemotherapy & Radiation Therapy Survival Guide
The first looks by far the most promising. It is small and contains recipies I would actually cook. The second is very 70's looking and contains recipies like "grated daikon," although it is by the guy who invented macrobiotics, for what that is worth.
The third has a very distinctive smell, and not a good one, and came with a little note in it which says:
I promise to always be fair with my pricing and honest with my book descriptions. My goal is to honor God and let Him bless my endeavors. May God bless you and your family today and everyday. Diana
And then handwritten:
I pray for your healing --
which I have to say even though it feels wierd to have strangers praying for you, it is better than having strangers cursing you. When I consulted my friend Stosh on the matter of spirituality and cancer, she suggested that having as many people praying for you as you can is a good idea. Like many ideas that seem new to me with cancer, I think that it is easier to just believe this than to not believe it.
I do, however, believe this list, which are the top ten super foods for an anti-cancer life, according to What To Eat Now:
1. Cruciferous vegetables (cabbage family)
2. Garlic
3. Carotenoid-rich foods (dark green/deeply colored veggies)
4. Yogurt, nonfat, I prefer Nancy's
5. Beans
6. Soybeans
7. Citrus Fruit
8. Fiber-rich foods
9. Fish, the fattier the better
10. Mushrooms -- shiitake, reishi, maitaki.
This is sort of a non-hierarchical, general well-being way to pray, eating these foods.
