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Berry Nice
Red and blue berries are stuffed with phytochemicals, flavonoids, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. They’re like tiny health bombs. Right now berries are in season and at their cheapest, so fill...
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How to Prepare for a Week in Hospital
Dr Allan Hamilton, neurosurgeon and author of The Scalpel and the Soul, asserts that patients who maintain a sense of who they are fare better in hospital than those who do not. Making your hospital...
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The Comfort of Calendula
Last week I had a follow-up appointment with my wonderful oncologist, Dr Suzy Cleator, at the LOC. After three years my reaction to these appointments has gone from being semi-paralysed with anxiety to...
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Coping With New Chemotherapy Research
In the past month research has been published that suggests that chemotherapy may cause cancers to return. The news is all over the internet, of course, and is presented differently by various groups...
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Beauty Talk – An Interview with Margo Marrone
Margo Marrone began her career as a pharmacist. In the course of her research she was shocked to find how many toxic ingredients lurk in the cosmetics that we use every day. Margo founded The Organic...
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Not the Year You Had Planned
Cathy McCarthy was diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2007. She had surgery, 6 sessions of chemotherapy and 33 sessions of radiotherapy. Having recovered from the treatment she feels blessed to...
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Good Glamour
PINK is bustin’ out all o-o-ver. If you’ve been anywhere near a department store in the last couple of weeks you will not have failed to notice that it is Breast Cancer Awareness month. To celebrate,...
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Gloria’s Glorious Veggies
I have long been interested in health foods and healthy cooking, but cancer gave me the incentive to do this daily and much more rigorously. The result has been that this has been the healthiest year...
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Things I wish I’d known before #3 – How to evaluate complementary therapies
Debate rages on the internet following Angelina Jolie’s announcement that she has had a preventative double-mastectomy. Everyone, it seems, has an opinion. But where does this leave the person who...
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Writing to Heal
I am a writer by profession. When I was going through chemotherapy my friends urged me to write a blog. Write a blog? I thought, No way! - because A: it’s work, and B: who on earth would want to read a...
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Amanda Goes Paraben-Free
After Amanda Wardell was diagnosed with breast cancer she became concerned about toxic ingredients in beauty products, both for herself and for her baby daughter.
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Trinny and Susannah Go Chemo Chic!
Those fabulous fashionistas Trinny & Susannah have written a brilliant article on their blog – all about how to dress comfortably and stylishly after a mastectomy. We totally endorse their...
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