The cultural practice of mindful eating is one of the many reasons why Okinawa, Japan has a higher percentage of centenarians than anywhere else in the world. This 2500-year-old Confucian mantra and simple Japanese phrase, “Hara Hachi Bu”, is said like a prayer before each meal—it’s translation means—stop eating at 80 percent full. I read …
When I get asked, “What did you do differently to win the battle against cancer,” there is not just one protocol that I will mention. In mainstream health care, you would hear this answer—”I’m doing Chemotherapy, or I’m doing Radiation and/or Surgery.” But in Alternative Integrative Medicine, many therapies are given to battle cancer, and …
When I was going through all the rough times of cancer, I always made it a point to include laughter in my day. Watching something funny or reading it stimulates your body, enhances oxygen intake, and helps your brain release endorphins—our feel-good brain chemicals. This relieves stress and as we are all know—stress creates disease. …
This appeared in the Cortland Standard, Sunday paper on June 30, 2018. I just loved the article—the Editor/writer did a wonderful job. I was so busy shipping out books and moving during July that I forgot to upload this! Through this article, I was contacted by a very dear friend and we are now back …
I just recently moved from a home filled with way too many items (a blog to come on “Living with Less”) and started thinking about how moving from one home to another, in a different city, is similar to healing from disease and cancer. First, we get a new itinerary and need to do our …
A rowing friend ordered two of my “Rowing through Cancer” books and I delivered them to her at the boathouse. Later that week on Thursday, I received a message telling me after receiving the books, she went to pick up her husband from his walk and learned that his recent MRI diagnosis was Pancreatic Cancer …
For this weeks blog, I am sharing the introduction page of my book. When you hear the words “We found cancer…” your life changes in an instant and it will never ever be the same again. Alis Jordan Cancer changes everything about you. Your mental outlook, your diet, your body, your life! But it doesn’t …
The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expecting a different result. That’s what I did and that’s why I believe my cancer returned the second time. My initial Endometrial/Peritoneal Cancer was stage 4 and I was pretty much given a death sentence. The original doctors weren’t giving me much hope …
My 6-month cancer checkup is clean! Though I am going into my second year of being cancer free I still get awfully nervous when going for my routine MRI and blood work. These diagnostics from a well-known hospital give me my first line of defense at beating cancer. Once again, yesterday was filled with emotions …
READ All you can about Cancer, Nutrition and Health! When my cancer returned after being clean for 3 years, I was demoralized and then finally realized I could not keep doing what I was doing and expect different results. Isn’t that what the definition of insanity is? So, I decided to read everything I could to …