In honor of World Spay Day, February 26th, the BTC4A community will blog, read, and share posts.
Won't you join us in blogging the change for our pets? We're in!
Here's to healthy pets everywhere - and to less homeless pets as well!
24 Şubat 2013 Pazar
Calling All Bloggers: Help Promote World Spay Day 2013
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February is Spay/Neuter month, a time to spread awareness about the importance of neutering our pets. Be the Change for Animals is hosting a blog hop, encouraging all bloggers to join in promoting spay/neuter and educating the general public about the benefits of doing so.
In honor of World Spay Day, February 26th, the BTC4A community will blog, read, and share posts.
Won't you join us in blogging the change for our pets? We're in!
Here's to healthy pets everywhere - and to less homeless pets as well!
In honor of World Spay Day, February 26th, the BTC4A community will blog, read, and share posts.
Won't you join us in blogging the change for our pets? We're in!
Here's to healthy pets everywhere - and to less homeless pets as well!
DON'T IGNORE STAGE IV
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WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? STAGE IV DOESN'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? STAGE IV DOESN'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT.- Visit MBCaware.org and Eisai will donate $1 to Metastatic Breast Cancer research.
- Sign up for MBCaware emails, and Eisai will donate another $1.
- "Like" the 'METAvivor' page on Facebook and another $1 will be donated...
- Share an image on Facebook, Eisai will donate another $1.
- Follow @METAvivor or Tweet with #MBCaware and another $1 is donated!
- There is an important video about Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) created by METAvivor that is phenomenal. Trigger a $1 donation to MBC research simply by visiting the MBCaware.org website.
- Some stats about the Stage IV Community:
CANCER? AIN'T NO GIFT
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My blogging friend Nancy over at the always-insightful Nancy's Point is revisiting the ever-present query of whether or not cancer is a gift. That got me thinking. Is cancer a gift?
My Big Fat Cancer Adventure began two years ago, when I really did get Cancer for Christmas. But I'm not seeing that shimmer (or is it glimmer?) of warm and fuzzy light at the end of the proverbial cancer tunnel. Every time I round a bend on The Big C Highway, there's a new roadblock in my way, another hurdle to climb over, another hoop to jump through. It is never ending and, as the great Gilda Radner's Roseanne Roseannadanna character famously quipped, "It's always something."
But back to the concept of cancer being a "gift." Is cancer an opportunity to live your life differently? Yup...
... But don't we all have that option, every single day? (Yup.)
Is cancer a wakeup call? Yup. Like stepping into the path of an express train could be considered an eye-opening event, cancer stops us smack in our tracks. Many of us live to tell the tale; many of us do not. All of us are maimed. But am I thankful for the train that is trying to run me over? Nope.
Let's try a different analogy: Does the deer being hunted in the forest think the rifle is a gift? Nope.
I'm here to tell you that getting diagnosed with cancer is akin to having crosshairs tattooed on your back. You will forever be a target of The Big C. And like the deer, you will try very, very hard to outrun this enemy. You'll attack it with your arsenal of surgery and chemicals and radiation and years of hormone-surpressing pills. You'll fill an emotional moat with your tears. You'll find out all too quickly who your real friends are — and you will take this realization like a bullet to the heart. You'll need a nap every day and be unable to fend off your fears in the darkness of night. You'll experience "scanxiety" any time you have to take any kind of medical test. You'll develop PTSD whenever you walk into a doctor's office (especially at a cancer center) or when you notice a new ache or pain. Of course you'll become an expert on nutrition and additives and the many, many things that are harmful in our environment and you'll try to live a cleaner life. (Good luck with that.) You'll exercise more and eat less. And you'll also pine for the days when you could remember details quickly, concentrate easily, and be motivated in general. You'll curse the necessity of being your own health advocate 24/7, and appreciate your hands-on WedMD degree. You'll wonder how the hell you ever had time to do anything besides go to the doctor and monitor your own health.
Because in the end, it all comes down to this: Cancer is hiding like a hunter in a blind deep within the woods, holding a loaded rifle with its sights set on you and me.
And that ain't no gift.
My Big Fat Cancer Adventure began two years ago, when I really did get Cancer for Christmas. But I'm not seeing that shimmer (or is it glimmer?) of warm and fuzzy light at the end of the proverbial cancer tunnel. Every time I round a bend on The Big C Highway, there's a new roadblock in my way, another hurdle to climb over, another hoop to jump through. It is never ending and, as the great Gilda Radner's Roseanne Roseannadanna character famously quipped, "It's always something."
But back to the concept of cancer being a "gift." Is cancer an opportunity to live your life differently? Yup...
... But don't we all have that option, every single day? (Yup.)
Is cancer a wakeup call? Yup. Like stepping into the path of an express train could be considered an eye-opening event, cancer stops us smack in our tracks. Many of us live to tell the tale; many of us do not. All of us are maimed. But am I thankful for the train that is trying to run me over? Nope.
Let's try a different analogy: Does the deer being hunted in the forest think the rifle is a gift? Nope.
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I'm here to tell you that getting diagnosed with cancer is akin to having crosshairs tattooed on your back. You will forever be a target of The Big C. And like the deer, you will try very, very hard to outrun this enemy. You'll attack it with your arsenal of surgery and chemicals and radiation and years of hormone-surpressing pills. You'll fill an emotional moat with your tears. You'll find out all too quickly who your real friends are — and you will take this realization like a bullet to the heart. You'll need a nap every day and be unable to fend off your fears in the darkness of night. You'll experience "scanxiety" any time you have to take any kind of medical test. You'll develop PTSD whenever you walk into a doctor's office (especially at a cancer center) or when you notice a new ache or pain. Of course you'll become an expert on nutrition and additives and the many, many things that are harmful in our environment and you'll try to live a cleaner life. (Good luck with that.) You'll exercise more and eat less. And you'll also pine for the days when you could remember details quickly, concentrate easily, and be motivated in general. You'll curse the necessity of being your own health advocate 24/7, and appreciate your hands-on WedMD degree. You'll wonder how the hell you ever had time to do anything besides go to the doctor and monitor your own health.
Because in the end, it all comes down to this: Cancer is hiding like a hunter in a blind deep within the woods, holding a loaded rifle with its sights set on you and me.
And that ain't no gift.
23 Şubat 2013 Cumartesi
DON'T IGNORE STAGE IV
To contact us Click HERE
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? STAGE IV DOESN'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT.
WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? STAGE IV DOESN'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT.- Visit MBCaware.org and Eisai will donate $1 to Metastatic Breast Cancer research.
- Sign up for MBCaware emails, and Eisai will donate another $1.
- "Like" the 'METAvivor' page on Facebook and another $1 will be donated...
- Share an image on Facebook, Eisai will donate another $1.
- Follow @METAvivor or Tweet with #MBCaware and another $1 is donated!
- There is an important video about Metastatic Breast Cancer (MBC) created by METAvivor that is phenomenal. Trigger a $1 donation to MBC research simply by visiting the MBCaware.org website.
- Some stats about the Stage IV Community:
CANCER? AIN'T NO GIFT
To contact us Click HERE
My blogging friend Nancy over at the always-insightful Nancy's Point is revisiting the ever-present query of whether or not cancer is a gift. That got me thinking. Is cancer a gift?
My Big Fat Cancer Adventure began two years ago, when I really did get Cancer for Christmas. But I'm not seeing that shimmer (or is it glimmer?) of warm and fuzzy light at the end of the proverbial cancer tunnel. Every time I round a bend on The Big C Highway, there's a new roadblock in my way, another hurdle to climb over, another hoop to jump through. It is never ending and, as the great Gilda Radner's Roseanne Roseannadanna character famously quipped, "It's always something."
But back to the concept of cancer being a "gift." Is cancer an opportunity to live your life differently? Yup...
... But don't we all have that option, every single day? (Yup.)
Is cancer a wakeup call? Yup. Like stepping into the path of an express train could be considered an eye-opening event, cancer stops us smack in our tracks. Many of us live to tell the tale; many of us do not. All of us are maimed. But am I thankful for the train that is trying to run me over? Nope.
Let's try a different analogy: Does the deer being hunted in the forest think the rifle is a gift? Nope.
I'm here to tell you that getting diagnosed with cancer is akin to having crosshairs tattooed on your back. You will forever be a target of The Big C. And like the deer, you will try very, very hard to outrun this enemy. You'll attack it with your arsenal of surgery and chemicals and radiation and years of hormone-surpressing pills. You'll fill an emotional moat with your tears. You'll find out all too quickly who your real friends are — and you will take this realization like a bullet to the heart. You'll need a nap every day and be unable to fend off your fears in the darkness of night. You'll experience "scanxiety" any time you have to take any kind of medical test. You'll develop PTSD whenever you walk into a doctor's office (especially at a cancer center) or when you notice a new ache or pain. Of course you'll become an expert on nutrition and additives and the many, many things that are harmful in our environment and you'll try to live a cleaner life. (Good luck with that.) You'll exercise more and eat less. And you'll also pine for the days when you could remember details quickly, concentrate easily, and be motivated in general. You'll curse the necessity of being your own health advocate 24/7, and appreciate your hands-on WedMD degree. You'll wonder how the hell you ever had time to do anything besides go to the doctor and monitor your own health.
Because in the end, it all comes down to this: Cancer is hiding like a hunter in a blind deep within the woods, holding a loaded rifle with its sights set on you and me.
And that ain't no gift.
My Big Fat Cancer Adventure began two years ago, when I really did get Cancer for Christmas. But I'm not seeing that shimmer (or is it glimmer?) of warm and fuzzy light at the end of the proverbial cancer tunnel. Every time I round a bend on The Big C Highway, there's a new roadblock in my way, another hurdle to climb over, another hoop to jump through. It is never ending and, as the great Gilda Radner's Roseanne Roseannadanna character famously quipped, "It's always something."
But back to the concept of cancer being a "gift." Is cancer an opportunity to live your life differently? Yup...
... But don't we all have that option, every single day? (Yup.)
Is cancer a wakeup call? Yup. Like stepping into the path of an express train could be considered an eye-opening event, cancer stops us smack in our tracks. Many of us live to tell the tale; many of us do not. All of us are maimed. But am I thankful for the train that is trying to run me over? Nope.
Let's try a different analogy: Does the deer being hunted in the forest think the rifle is a gift? Nope.
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| (Copyright © CamoGirl_18) |
I'm here to tell you that getting diagnosed with cancer is akin to having crosshairs tattooed on your back. You will forever be a target of The Big C. And like the deer, you will try very, very hard to outrun this enemy. You'll attack it with your arsenal of surgery and chemicals and radiation and years of hormone-surpressing pills. You'll fill an emotional moat with your tears. You'll find out all too quickly who your real friends are — and you will take this realization like a bullet to the heart. You'll need a nap every day and be unable to fend off your fears in the darkness of night. You'll experience "scanxiety" any time you have to take any kind of medical test. You'll develop PTSD whenever you walk into a doctor's office (especially at a cancer center) or when you notice a new ache or pain. Of course you'll become an expert on nutrition and additives and the many, many things that are harmful in our environment and you'll try to live a cleaner life. (Good luck with that.) You'll exercise more and eat less. And you'll also pine for the days when you could remember details quickly, concentrate easily, and be motivated in general. You'll curse the necessity of being your own health advocate 24/7, and appreciate your hands-on WedMD degree. You'll wonder how the hell you ever had time to do anything besides go to the doctor and monitor your own health.
Because in the end, it all comes down to this: Cancer is hiding like a hunter in a blind deep within the woods, holding a loaded rifle with its sights set on you and me.
And that ain't no gift.
It's January! Foodie New Year's Resolutions
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Hello, 2013!
The new year is upon us and with that comes New Year's resolutions. For 2012 I vowed to reduce unnecessary chemicals in my life. My aspirations went far beyond the dinner plate.
My resolution included:
Do your New Year's resolutions for 2013 relate to your diet, health or overall well-being? Please share in the comments below and inspire other readers!
Happy New Year!
Until Next Time,
Choose Healthy!
Angela Tague
Whole Foods Living
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The new year is upon us and with that comes New Year's resolutions. For 2012 I vowed to reduce unnecessary chemicals in my life. My aspirations went far beyond the dinner plate.
My resolution included:
- buying organic foods when affordable
- cooking from scratch to avoid preservatives and fillers
- overhauling my makeup choices to reduce chemical exposure
- making natural household cleaners
- using natural and organic beauty products
Do your New Year's resolutions for 2013 relate to your diet, health or overall well-being? Please share in the comments below and inspire other readers!
Happy New Year!
Until Next Time,
Choose Healthy!
Angela Tague
Whole Foods Living
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Gluten-Free Dunkin' Donuts Coming Soon?
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Ok, so doughnuts aren't healthy or a whole food.
But, if you're gluten-sensitive or have Celiac Disease you eat healthy most of the time, right? I do! So, it's ok to want to splurge on a sugary treat every once in awhile. (Hey, I'm human!)
Dunkin' Donuts is taking a proactive approach and reaching out to folks following a gluten-free diet. The company temporarily added two new items to store menus in Boston and Miami to see if customers are interested in having gluten-free treats, according to the Miami New Times.
Individually wrapped blueberry muffins and cinnamon sugar donuts are now available. You can read more about the menu change in my news commentary article on Gather News.
Do you live in Miami or Boston? Have you tried these treats? I'm curious! Many pre-packaged gluten-free items I've tried are dry or have a tough texture. Since a Dunkin' Donuts is opening in my neck of the woods soon, I'd love to have a gluten-free option to enjoy.
Until Next Time,
Choose Healthy!
Angela Tague
Whole Foods Living
PS: Did you miss these posts? Check out these gluten-free topics!
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Muffins that Actually Rise!
Gluten-Free Soy Sauce Alternative: Liquid Amino Acids
What Is Xanthan Gum?
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But, if you're gluten-sensitive or have Celiac Disease you eat healthy most of the time, right? I do! So, it's ok to want to splurge on a sugary treat every once in awhile. (Hey, I'm human!)
Dunkin' Donuts is taking a proactive approach and reaching out to folks following a gluten-free diet. The company temporarily added two new items to store menus in Boston and Miami to see if customers are interested in having gluten-free treats, according to the Miami New Times.
Individually wrapped blueberry muffins and cinnamon sugar donuts are now available. You can read more about the menu change in my news commentary article on Gather News.
Do you live in Miami or Boston? Have you tried these treats? I'm curious! Many pre-packaged gluten-free items I've tried are dry or have a tough texture. Since a Dunkin' Donuts is opening in my neck of the woods soon, I'd love to have a gluten-free option to enjoy.
Until Next Time,
Choose Healthy!
Angela Tague
Whole Foods Living
PS: Did you miss these posts? Check out these gluten-free topics!
Gluten-Free Pumpkin Muffins that Actually Rise!
Gluten-Free Soy Sauce Alternative: Liquid Amino Acids
What Is Xanthan Gum?
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