13 Ways You Can Help Prevent Breast Cancer…

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. You can’t go anywhere without seeing PINK! Pink ribbons, pink Campbell food cans and a myriad of other food products whose companies are donating to breast cancer research. Here are 13 choices that may help you prevent breast and prostate Cancer. For more information, see www.mercola.com and www.PerfectWeightAmerica.com

1. 1. Optimize your vitamin D levels with appropriate sun exposure; supplement Vitamin D.
2. 2. Avoid processed food and preservatives.
3. 3. Get appropriate exercise and drive down your insulin levels.
4. Take Omega-3 fats, found in fish oil, flaxseed oil and eggs. Limit Omega-6 intake.
5. Avoid refined sugar and artificial sweeteners in your diet! Substitute with stevia, honey, Xyletol, natural fructose. Sugar feeds cancer!
6. Eat broccoli or cauliflower, depending upon nutritional type.
7. Reduce exposure to environmental toxins and sources of heavy metals.
8. Drink lots of pure spring water every day.
9. Boil, poach or steam your foods.
10. Do not fry or charbroil your foods.  
11. Get enough high-quality sleep, 7-9 hours.
12. Consume 1000 or more mg of Vit C 2x a day (natural only, not synthetic).
13. Eat lots of raw fruits and vegetables; limit simple carbs, such as breads, pastas and chips.

Grab a Bike Downtown and Go!

What a gorgeous Colorado fall day today has been! 71 degrees, sunny, fall leaves swirling around. I was dying to get outside! But had a lot of work to do for Good Catch Publishing, so I settled for grabbing my laptop, parking my car far away, and lingering in the sunshine before going into the local coffee shop/bakery to work. I was hoping to get some bike riding in today. Maybe tomorrow! This is the PERFECT TIME of year for riding on the hundreds of miles of Denver area bike paths!

I got this e-mail from TEAM FREEWHEELIN’ today. They are the group that brought a ton of bikes to the Democratic National Convention for those who wanted to “ride green!” If you recall, in between my volunteering with One Church Metro Denver handing out cups of cold water and picking up trash, I rode one of their bikes down the Cherry Creek Bike Path.

“Pedaling” these bikes to us for free  is a SUPER idea! All you need is to leave your drivers’ license number and credit card number for collateral and you can grab a bike and go!

 Here’s what Team Freewheelin’ had to say:

What a wild ride!

The results are in, and we’ve made history! Your support for Freewheelin helped us surpass our goal of 25,000 cycling miles ridden.

During the Democratic national convention, you rode Freewheelin bike 1 time, pedaled 2 miles, burned 62 calories and reduced your carbon footprint by the equivalent of roughly 1 2-mile car rides . Way to go!

We measured our success over the course of eight days in number of rides, miles ridden, calories burned and amount of carbon eliminated from the air. We’re thrilled to report:
            7,523 bike rides
            41,724 miles ridden
            1,293,429 calories burned
            14.6 metric tons of carbon offset
            $151,414 raised at the RNC for hurricane relief based on your miles!

You were instrumental in making Freewheelin a success at the conventions, but that was just the start of the bike-sharing revolution. Let’s continue our ride together. Have something to say about Freewheelin, or suggestions on where we should go next? We want this to be your revolution. Our Freewheelin blog is a forum where you can post suggestions, questions and comments, photos and videos, as well as access the most current news about all things Freewheelin. You might even see yourself in one of the postings!

Thanks for your interest in Freewheelin; we hope you had as much fun as we did!

-Team Freewheelin’

Only one thing: they have their stats wrong about me! I rode at least 10 miles! So I reduced my carbon footprint by MUCH more than a two-mile car ride!

FIREPROOF: Great Movie! Go See it!

In theatres now! Chet and I went with another couple, and I cried through several scenes. It was a dramatic improvement over their 2nd movie Facing the Giants – which I loved for its clean heart-warming tale of triumph. (Sherwood Pictures astonished 2006 movie goers in that remarkably good story for a low budget movie.) For Fall 2008 release #3, Fireproof, they poured more money into production and cinematography, and added starring actor, Kirk Cameron this time.  It’s is worth seeing, and taking people you know with you.

CBN Review

NY Times Review

Plugged-in Online

EW – Entertainment Weekly

Excerpt from EW:
“Not every failing marriage results in a blowout quite as exciting as the ones in Shoot the Moon, The War of the Roses, or Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, so there’s something slightly refreshing about the banality of the marital conflicts in Fireproof, a low-budget evangelical movie jam-packed with heartfelt tips for men about how to save your marriage. Steps like: Order flowers for your estranged wife — and good ones, not a bargain bouquet. Make her dinner and light some candles. Accept Christ as your personal savior. And do the dishes once in a while, will you? (In no particular order.)…

“Here, [Kirk] Cameron plays a tantrum-throwing firefighter who is, as he says, a hero to everyone but his wife (Erin Bethea), a neglected ice princess who’s tired of never knowing whether hubby will be home for dinner. When she pitches a breakup, he’s all too happy to oblige, until his ministerial-sounding dad proposes a 40-day program to regrow their love. This woo-back scheme takes longer to succeed than you’d expect in a Christian anti-divorce tract, and forestalling the couple’s inevitable reconciliation proves both surprisingly realistic and (over a two-hour running time) enervating. Some of the tenser domestic moments will hit home with battle-scarred marrieds of any religious stripe, and the couple’s problems are candid by evangelical feature standards, although they hardly rate high on the secular dramaturgy scale: He’s got an Internet porn habit, and she’s enjoying an unconsummated flirtation with a doctor at work….”

Excerpt From Hannah Goodwyn’s Review, CBN.com Producer:
“This is one movie critic who highly recommends everyone see Fireproof. Marrieds may learn valuable lessons from it, as all the singles out there will too. Also, kids will enjoy it and understand a little something about love and God’s part in our lives.”

The home page is http://www.fireproofmymarriage.com/.

“When Riding Tandem, Somebody Has to be Second!”

This was the topic of our “illustrated message” Sept. 6 at our First Saturdays kick-off –”Medley of Mentoring” — sponsored by Open Book Ministries. We gather in an open forum of dynamic interchange among women once a month in different womens’ homes. This Saturday will be #2. (All women are welcome to come to these meetings in the Denver area).

 

In September, I dressed up in bikers shorts and stood in front of my mountain bike (with a clip art of tandem riders taped to the crossbar.) Here are excerpts of what I said:

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Let me see a show of hands – how many of you have ridden either a road bike or a mountain bike? Good! How many people does it take to maneuver one of those?

[Audience said, "One!"]

As most of you know, tandem bicycles are specially built for two riders and include two seats, two sets of pedals and two handlebars. The more experienced tandem cyclist or the one with the greatest upper body strength is best suited to ride in the front seat as “captain” of the bicycle. The captain is responsible for controlling the bike’s direction and speed while warning the back seat rider of upcoming obstacles, bumps and gear shifts.

The rear rider or “stoker” is mainly a source of extra cruising power for the bike. Stokers must be very careful to keep their weight centrally balanced while cruising, and lean to one side only on turns.

Learning to ride tandem with another person is different than riding a single person bike by yourself. It takes a little getting used to, a little bit of practice. But you CAN learn, and when you do, tandem riders will tell you what a thrill and rewarding experience it is.

When you decide to take your life’s journey for a season with a human mentor, you want to ride with someone who has tried and tested the road of life, over the potholes, through rough terrain, winding paths and up difficult mountains. But most of all, you want to ride with someone who has been learning to ride tandem with her Captain, our Lord Jesus.

What I share with you about tandem riding will apply not only to riding tandem with a human mentor, but also riding together with Jesus, getting into a rhythm with His plan for your life as you let Him steer you through the challenges and joys of life.

Today I will share with you FIVE RULES for riding a tandem bike. READY TO HOP ABOARD? 

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