Crazy Sexy Kris Carr

Wow, I started seeing preview clips about Kris Carr's documentary 'Crazy Sexy Cancer' on TLC a while ago. It seemed really intriguing and like something I wanted to see.
I don't have cancer yet, but knowing the current stats (as well as the dramatic rate of increase) it seems pretty likely to happen at some point. At this point in time 'they' say that 2 in 5 Canadians (or 41.5%) will have some form of cancer in their lifetime.
Now I've kind of sidetracked myself by going and looking up those figures, anyways, that's a lot, I work with 19 other people, so 8 of us will probably have some cancer at some point, nearly half. So, the looming reality of the situation causes me to look at this as more of a when, not 'if'.

Should we wait until then to really start living?

We've probably all thought about we would change if we found out we were going to die, well, guess what, we are going to die! Just because we don't have a doctor's projected timeline doesn't mean it isn't going to happen, or that it's going to be when we're in our 80's or 90's. When I think of it like that, and then I think of people who die in car accidents, or work accidents, or any number of ways that people die each day without warning, somehow, the people with cancer almost seem luckier, they get that last chance to change things, or say things, or do things that they want to but might not have if they thought they were going to live forever.

I think Kris' message is pretty simple, you also don't have to have cancer or any other terminal condition (other then life) to change our tunes. Kris' message incorporates so much and so many messages. She seems to use focusing on the here and now to keep a positive outlook, why waste precious time being unhappy?
I'm really excited to see the documentary and see what else I can get from it. I also plan to read her book 'Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips', since I have a 41.5% chance of getting it some day I might as well start living, thinking, eating and being healthy. I have heard more often lately, cancer survivors, saying they are healthier/stronger or happier after cancer then they ever were before. That alone is enough for me.

Kris Carr was on Oprah yesterday and she was really awesome. I'm really looking forward to seeing her show on TLC tomorrow (Wednesday October 24/07 5pm and 8pm on TLC Channel 34 in Vancouver).

Biopiracy

This is a really important topic.
Once thing mentioned on the site is that childhood cancers alone have gone up 26% in the last 30 years.
Have you noticed over the years an increase in people with severe allergies? Things that for all of history have been health foods? Nuts, dairy, fruits and vegetables?
What we are learning now is that 60% of our corn, 45% of our potatoes and 25% of the soy in Canada is GE (Genetically Engineered), then mixed in with non-GE foods?
We eat these ingredients in most of our processed foods. I'm afraid that in time this will begin to apply to our 'fresh' and non processed foods like produce.
Corperations like Dow, Dupont, Monsanto and Novartis are in a race to patent the planet's plants and animal genes.
What that means is that eventually, if left unchallenged, they will own the food chain. They'll be able to genetically modify it in any way they want.
Drugs and medicine are a trillion dollar a year business, it's in these corporation 'interests' to have increased illness, from cancer, to the common cold or allergies.

As someone who has seen a genetic mutation have serious health consequences for several generations of my family, I think that the effect of monkeying around with the genes of the items we consume is very important and needs 3rd party investigation, not science produced by the manufacturers themselves.
This is also the basis for dieseases like mad cow, and the reason behind a lot of drug resistant illnesses.

Monsanto Whistleblower Says Genetically Engineered Crops May Cause Disease