mid-morning habit

beet, carrot (or apple), garlic, flax seeds, water and lemon juice

Fighting Cancer With Your Fork

Good advice from Stacy Kennedy, my nutritionist at Dana-Farber.
To listen click here. To read click here.

The Turmeric Girl

I often return to this moment. To the girl selling tumeric on a street of Bhaktapur. I only took these two photos. I wish I had taken more. As I walked away from her I kept looking back. I remember telling Zé and Filipa to notice the girl, the tumeric and the gray tones that surrounded her. There was harmony between the cool and warm colors.

I am talking about this beautiful girl I saw in a street of Nepal in 1999 because I add turmeric to almost everything I cook. Turmeric (cúrcuma longa) seems to be a great anti-cancer spice.

My long and "bery" sweet break (since surgery in June) is coming to an end. I spent the Summer preparing my body for the upcoming combat (with a balanced diet, exercise and relaxation) and now I am ready to return to the battlefield (this time in NYC). The Hope is that R7112, my new weapon, will target the MDM2, and get my wild P53 to work and kill my cancer cells.

:))) this is how I understand the Nutlin-MDM2-p53 diagrams my oncologists, Dr. Jeffrey Morgan and Dr. Geoffrey Shapiro, patiently drew and explained to me.

ANTICANCER

"helping our body fight as well as it ever can"
David Servan-Schreiber

speaking of garlic

... some of my friends remember that last October, I was busy planting garlic. Well... here is the fruit of my labor. Now I have no idea what to do. Let it dry before eating it?

secret ingredient: lemon

I added lemon to my morning beet/carrots/garlic juice and it was simply delizioso.
This new tip, to add fresh-pressed lemon juice, came from Italy. From someone who found my blog when searching the effects of garlic on certain types cancer. So it is true, I am the garlic girl :))))

Grazie Dino!

confessions of a juicer (yeah I am still juicing)

1- Sometimes my vegetables/juices are more photogenic than
eatable/drinkable. Today I threw all this (beet and its leaf,
carrot, brocoli, garlic and radish) into the juicer.



But even with my special olive oil (produced and sent by
a friend in Portugal), I wasn't able to finish my bowl.
I don't know how some rawists are able to drink grass.
Crasy Sexy CanSer Cowgirls will you tell me your secrets?

2 - My motivation should be to see if a miracle happens.
To see if a raw diet can stop/slow the growth of my
tumours... but the truth is: I am doing all this raw business for my hair.

from garden to juicer

yesterday´s harvest: sweet basil, thai basil, mint, raspberries, hot peppers, cucumber, tomatoes, chives and nasturtium flowers



I called it a cold soup instead of green juice since I added salt, pepper, balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
I almost forgot to tell you, I also added garlic :)

bery bery bery bery good

 
strawberry, raspberry (my garden), blackberry (Dan's garden) and blueberry
shhhh don't tell Maya, I added some garlic too ;-)

alô alô (ISABEL) agora é SUMOS

1/2 beet
1 medium carrot
1 slice of cucumber (from my vegetable garden)
1 garlic clove (also from my vegetable garden :-))
1 tsp of lemon juice
after drinking it I ate coriander and cucumber
nham nham
Ze said it tasted better today
Maya loved it until I told her about the garlic
Filipa took the photo but did not try it.

CRUA

Sumo de Beterraba / beet juice
(1 beet, 3 strawberries, 1/2 apple, 4 carrots + 8 blueberries)

(Com ajuda da Maya e da Kris ainda vou virar Crua ou será Rawista?)