Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cancer. Show all posts

2009-06-12

Unmitigated Drama: Goji Berry Juice

I'm a juice fan. I'm a hardcore juice fan.

Apart from a bias for fresh juices and tropical fruit juices, I don't see much keeping me from trying goji berry juice, the subject of a lot of recent hype and controversy.

(Goji is also known a wolfberry or
枸杞 or Gochi)

One friend I've known for "most of the time I've been around" swears by the stuff and suggests that goji berry juice is linked to improvement in his daughter's health and in improvements in other friends, including friends diagnosed with cancer.

At the same time, many naysaying sources suggest some of the Goji hype to be scams filling the pockets of opportunists.

I'm in no rush to suggest that Goji is a cure for cancer, or cure for anything. I'm in no rush to even guess into the hype about nutritional content, subjective benefit, or placebo effect.

Seeing how more than one friend has welcomed the product and suggested health benefits, I'd just as well relay that message: It's juice! If you like juice too, consider trying goji berry juice. Steer clear of the cheap stuff unless you've got your own berries to juice.

What has been your experience with Goji? Interesting juice, miracle cure, hyped? Anecdotes welcome!

If you take the plunge and "go Goji," do consider my friend's link: http://bit.ly/fqi5K

香港版 http://bit.ly/CF9EK


:p

2009-05-21

Cancer Vs. Down Syndrome. Round 3. FIGHT!

Story from MSNBC via Disaboom:

You won't find "reduced risk of cancer" on most lists of the effects of Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21), but scientists have long known that people with the condition rarely get most types of cancer. Now, a Harvard study has identified one of the factors that protects people with Down Syndrome against tumors. The discovery could lead to new methods of protecting all patients against cancer.






"You will never win!"

"FIGHT!" (link re: study)

-Mortal Kombat


:p

2009-05-13

this little light of mine... ♫

You would struggle so hard
even for a moment

to box me

to frame me

to own me

in thoughts

in words


your 'near'
your 'far'
your 'mine'
your 'yours'
your 'right'
your 'wrong'
your 'truth'
your 'lies'

and more?


You would fight to bind me

to confine me

to slow me down

"what for?"


You would have me

apologize

for all the world

out side your

acceptable spaces and

you would

blame

that i remind you

of More?


my cheap words
written spoken in
surround-sound stereo

I share with all of you for "free-99"

will you

let it go

to waste?

the message is

never mine

i fight in "dark" places bent backwords without breaking
without braking

all these people with dark faces
call me a knight of all races the
night of old graces a
knight of hard chases the
night ending ender of justice's lost cases a
knight-"light" for life through this fear metastasis

will.we.you.i
let.it.shine?
let.it.shine?
let.it.shine?

i do sing yet
every day
maybe not in every way
but then. . .


You would

shoot me

maybe I'm your messenger?

my duty is never to your fear


here, hear:



This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

This little light of mine
I'm gonna let it shine

let it shine,
let it shine,
let it shine!


. . . is a song my grandmother
sang to me
bouncing me
on her leg,
even after the surgery
dying from cancer she
and still he

lived "like she was dying"she
loved fearlessly

left silently
left breathlessly

showed me
and let me be me
back then like tomorrow I was ready to see
I felt the fight of the "light" that lay ahead of me

understanding

was never meant for me
how was I meant to be?

you will never see
through mental enmity
your oldest jealousy
it's not me you see
I'm not your enemy

i :: am :: a mirror
made for reflection
just an enzyme
look to me to see
those places you deny introspection

i :: say :: "let's FIGHT"
for ever in a joint direction:

some day
some way

just be?

and there we'll be
finally


let it shine?






:p