Posted 8/8/2011 3:20 PM (GMT 0)
Mel,
There are those rare moments with me, this time, I figured you meant it lightly by bringing up your eggplant meal. Who would have dreamed that such a light mannered thread would end up with some posters referring to certain HW posters as "idiots", another one mocking "fat" people, and how the state of SC got slandered by another is beyond me, like what in the world does that have to do with anything. Fortunately, stuff like that never bothers me, I live here, not from here, I am still looked upon as that dam yankee from the north, I take pride in that.
The funny thing is, I rarely eat the traditional southern foods, as I am sensitive to fried foods in general. We eat only lean meats, and not large quantities of that, try to have broiled seafood at least 2x a week. I love most vegetbles and eat lots of them. Never been into fruit or juices, with few exceptions. I don't drink or smoke, getting my exercise 2x a week with the physical therapy, learning to cut down on the sweets, so all in all, don't think I am doing all that bad diet wise.
Its been said, you either eat to live, or live to eat, I guess I am somewhere in between. Good eating is an important part of my quality of life, which for the most part - with my prolonged, painful journey, is still important to me.
I think as long as we work toward a heart healthy diet, learn moderation, get some form of exercise, then we are doing well. Getting obsessed about any of that isn't healthy in my opinion, and that is the jest of what my oncology dieticians feel too.
In the end, we eat what we want to eat, and don't eat what we don't want to eat, and its very personal and subjective, and that's how it should be.
Some of us will die from cancer, some of us will survive it and die of other causes, and in my own personal opinion - none of that is going to change whether or not you eat or don't eat something. Soy, tofu, tomatos, eggplant, POM, meat or no meat, etc, etc - there's no part of me that believes that consuming more of such things will change a thing in the long run, and to this day, there is no hard fast facts to prove differently.
My advice is to keep on going toward that heart healthy diet, but don't make your like miserable by avoiding the things you love in moderation. Cancer is miserable enough, without adding self-inflicted suffering to it as well.
David in SC