http://www.3genfamily.com/2008/03/can-gardening-and-salads-prevent-lung-cancer/ Caring for Parents, Raising Teens, Staying Healthy and Sane Tue, 22 Jun 2010 04:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.3genfamily.com/2008/03/can-gardening-and-salads-prevent-lung-cancer/comment-page-1/#comment-40 Jim G Sun, 23 Mar 2008 14:41:10 +0000 http://3genfamily.wordpress.com/?p=56#comment-40 Preaching to the choir here, Connie, as I take another sip from my cup of blueberry tea. I'm totally convinced that a good diet with plenty of antioxidants, plus exercise and a good reason for living can prevent or delay a whole lot of disease. (Knock on wood.) As you know, a number of recent nutrition studies have indicated the opposite, that you can't prevent many diseases previously thought connected to nutritional factors. But those are typical scientific studies, isolating one factor such as saturated fat or Vitamin E. They don't control for all of the other factors that can throw one's life out of whack, or the synergistic effect of positive nutritional habits. Too bad that your dad didn't stay involved with gardening somehow; that probably did contribute to an increased decline in his quality of life. Nothing that can be done for him now, but it's good that you're passing on these lessons to future generations. Let's hope that people will listen. Best regards. Preaching to the choir here, Connie, as I take another sip from my cup of blueberry tea. I’m totally convinced that a good diet with plenty of antioxidants, plus exercise and a good reason for living can prevent or delay a whole lot of disease. (Knock on wood.) As you know, a number of recent nutrition studies have indicated the opposite, that you can’t prevent many diseases previously thought connected to nutritional factors. But those are typical scientific studies, isolating one factor such as saturated fat or Vitamin E. They don’t control for all of the other factors that can throw one’s life out of whack, or the synergistic effect of positive nutritional habits. Too bad that your dad didn’t stay involved with gardening somehow; that probably did contribute to an increased decline in his quality of life. Nothing that can be done for him now, but it’s good that you’re passing on these lessons to future generations. Let’s hope that people will listen. Best regards.

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