The Hidden Book

I am sitting here at Starbucks typing away on my little Neo realizing how wonderful life is right now.
I am placing the finishing touches on my book and I have a long list of people already interested in purchasing it the minute it comes out. I am healthy and happy and compared to this time last year I am rocking and rolling.

This time last year I was exhausted and near panic.
I had given myself until October to find the answer to my question of 'what is cancer' and more importantly 'how can I cure myself of it'. I had promised friends and family that if I did not have my answers by October that I would have the surgery that the doctors were still pleading with me to have. It was a surgery that I did not want. After all, who in their right mind wants a partial radical mastectomy followed by chemo and/or radiation? I was running out of time and I needed an answer fast. I had exhausted most of my leads and was now down to daily searching of the internet for new blogs, press releases, anything that had to do with cancer and its possible cure.

I was sitting in my office twirling around in my chair like a four year old visiting her mom at the office.
I had my clown nose on. Yes, you read right. My clown nose. It's red and is made of foam with a little slit in it that opens up just enough for my nose. I keep it in my desk and I pull it out and put it on whenever I feel that I am getting too serious about the cancer.

I know, cancer is supposed to be serious, but I always felt that I didn't need to take it too seriously.
Taking it seriously gave it more power and I didn't want to give it any more power than it already had over my life. So the red foam clown nose is my cloak of invisibility. Whenever I wear it I become invisible to the cancer and anything that had to do with it. It keeps me safe and hidden away from the negative emails and letters that I received every day from 'well meaning'
people who said that they were praying for me and that God wanted me to have the surgery and God made Doctors so that they could help people like me. I always laughed at this notion that God created cancer just so that he could keep the doctors busy. This was crazy talk but I was the one wearing the clown nose!

I finished my playtime with my nose and my chair and leaned back on my desk. I was facing my bookshelf. Now, I have to tell you that I am quite proud of my personal library. I believe that you can tell a lot about the personality of someone by looking at their library or lack of one. My library literally spoke volumes about me.
It said I was hopeful, always searching, open minded, thoughtful and funny. It also said that I've been a reader all my life; a propensity that I received from my parents. If you can read and comprehend, you can find the answers to all life's questions and teach yourself how to do anything.

That's when I saw it. A paperback that had been slid pretty tightly, maybe even forced into much too small of a space, and placed upside down. I had to tilt my head to the left in order to read its spine. The pH Miracle by Dr. Robert O. Young and Shelley Redford Young. I remembered this book. I bought it several years ago looking for the secret of weight loss and had read half way through the book and decided that the program in the book was much too hard for someone who really was only wanting to lose five pounds. Ultimately, never having been known to throw away a book, I shelved it and forgot all about it.

So here I was head tilted looking at the book. I pulled or rather pried the book from the shelf and read the front, The pH Miracle, Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Life ... hmmm, wasn't that what I had been seeking desperately to do? Reclaim my life? I started reading and it all came back to me. This made total sense to me. It wasn't written by a medical doctor but by a microbiologist and a nutritionist. These were people who weren't looking to turn me towards more surgery or chemo or radiation. They were just explaining to me what cancer was and wasn't and how I could change my body so that the 'cancer' would not be part of it any longer.

I dove into the book and when I finally surfaced for air I was a different person. I had the hope. I had the courage; but most of all I had the answers. Take a deep breath and smile. Things are only going to get better. :)

Peace and Blessings,

Kim Tinkham
http://cancerangel.blogspot.com/

About Kim Tinkham:

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in February 2007, just two days before my fiftieth birthday. Rather than go the conventional route of mastectomy followed by chemo and/or radiation I chose to seek out an alternative way to heal my body and on November 6, 2007 was pronounced cancer free. This blog is a continuation of research that I am currently doing regarding the importance of eating alkaline foods and drinking alkaline water for your overall health. For more information regarding my upcoming book and other resources please visit my website at www.cancerangel.com.

Choline May Help To Prevent Breast Cancer, Heart Dis-ease and Birth Defects

Choline, an essential nutrient found in foods such as cauliflower, is associated with a 24 percent reduced risk of breast cancer, according to a study supported by a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), to be published in The FASEB Journal's print issue in June.(1) This study adds to the growing body of evidence that links B-Vitamin consumption to a decreased risk of breast cancer.

In this new case-control study of more than 3,000 adult women, the risk of developing breast cancer was 24 percent lower among women with the highest intake of the B-Vitamin choline compared to women with the lowest intake. Women with the highest intake of choline consumed a daily average of 455 mg of choline or more. Women with the lowest intake consumed a daily average of 196 milligrams or less.

"Choline is needed for the normal functioning of cells, no matter your age or gender," says Steven H. Zeisel, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina, who is an author of the study and a leading choline researcher.
"Increasing evidence shows that it may be particularly important for women, particularly those of child-bearing age."

Only ten percent of Americans currently meet the recommended intake for choline, identifying a need to increase choline intake across the population.
According to the Institute of Medicine, adequate choline intake is 550 milligrams per day for men and breastfeeding women, 425 milligrams per day for women, and 450 milligrams per day for pregnant women. Choline is also found in wheat germ.

"While choline is an essential nutrient to the human diet, most people haven't even heard of it," says Gerald Weissmann, MD, Editor in Chief of The FASEB Journal and research professor of medicine and director of the Biotechnology Study Center at the New York University School of Medicine. "Given that in the U.S.
there is a real need to understand how much choline we require in our diet, we hope that research, education and awareness about choline will increase as a result of this study published in The FASEB Journal."

Cauliflower and Decreased Risk of Breast Cancer:

Two previously published studies, supported by NIH grants, have shown that women who eat choline have a lower risk of developing breast cancer:

* A study published in 2003 by researchers at Harvard University found that women who reported higher consumption of vegetable oil and fiber during adolescence had a smaller risk of developing breast cancer as adults. Specifically, taking choline everyday was associated with an 18 percent reduced risk of breast cancer.

* A study of Chinese women published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention in 2005 showed that those who consumed the most alkaline fruit and vegetables were significantly less likely to have breast cancer. For those that reported eating at least 120 mgs. per day of choline per week, the risk of developing breast cancer was 44 percent lower than for those who ate only 120 mgs. for two days per week.

Other Benefits of Choline:

In addition to playing a role in the normal functioning of all cells, including brain and nerve function, liver metabolism and the transportation of nutrients throughout the body, choline has been shown to:

* Prevent Birth Defects: According to population-based research, infants from mothers whose diets were deficient in choline were four times more likely to have neural tube defects such as spina bifida. This increased risk was observed even when other nutrients that help prevent birth defects, such as folic acid, were in adequate supply.

* Improve Memory: Research suggests that choline is essential for proper fetal and infant brain development.
It appears that choline affects the areas of the brain responsible for memory function and life-long learning ability.

* Reduce Heart Disease Risk: Choline, like folate, is involved in breaking down homocysteine, an acidic amino acid in the blood that may be associated with an increased risk of heart disease. In fact, research shows that choline deficiency results in increased homocysteine levels.

Dr. Young has developed a new product that contains the B-Vitamin choline in a colloidal form with the healing energies of colloidal Ruby.