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My name is Amy, I'm 32 years old and I live in Kansas.

I'm very shyly introducing myself because I'm

not...actually...a...vegetarian. But my younger sister is a

vegetarian and I have been cooking vegetarian foods for her for

several years because when we were growing up my parents didn't

support her vegetarianism (they do now) so she usually just ate side

dishes and junk food and wasn't very healthy. I worried about her

so I learned to cook things we both would eat. While I was cooking

for her, I realized I liked the healthier feeling I got from the

vegetarian lifestyle. Now I eat very little meat but I'm not a

vegetarian because I still eat meat now and then. However, I am

battling cancer and after 7 1/2 years the cancer has gone into

a " chronic " stage where we can't beat it with traditional

medicine...the tumors just keep coming back...so now I am working on

beating it through faith and natural healing. I am using diet and

nutrition as one of my " weapons " and I'm hoping to gain some new

ideas, recipes, and information from this forum to use in my battle

against cancer. Let me tell you that right now I'm feeling very

healthy, and the cancer, while still in my body, is manageable, and

I want to keep it that way...so this isn't a matter of a last-ditch

effort...it's just my way of using every resource available to me to

make my body as strong as possible in the fight, and I believe

putting less animal byproducts in a body and more whole-grains,

fruits and vegetables is a huge step in fighting cancer.

 

Thank you for having this forum available. I know I will learn a

lot from your group!

 

Amy :-)