soul food wrote:That's a good summary by Dr. McDougall. I will email that out to everyone but my SIL who now doesn't speak to me because I brought up the McDougall diet and cancer because her husband, my BIL had/has prostate cancer. We were all there for my FIL death watch and I cooked a bunch of food which everyone ate and loved and they kept asking me questions about this WOE and I brought up that switching to this WOE might be of benefit for BIL prostate cancer. My SIL just went into a horrible guilt trip about the food she prepares and took it out on me. I was gentle, I did not blame her but I didn't back down. If looks could kill, I'd be dead.
soul food
Yeah, it's really a delicate situation. I got that from the stuff Susan Voisin wrote about her cancer. There's some implicit sense of the cancer victim being responsible. Our CSA farmer's wife died of breast cancer at the beginning of the year. She was also the CSA manager. We knew her and knew she had cancer for years. We always wanted to try to get her to pull the oil from her recipes. Once in a while I'd make small comments about how it would improve the healthiness of the food or something like, "I made that but without the oil. It was really good." But I always felt afraid that something I said would be interpreted as having a subtext that she could have done more to avoid the cancer. It's such a strange sense of responsibility that we all have. On the upside, I think it's an important quality for people to make the world a better place to live in. I guess the best you can do is speak the truth as you know it and hope it will make a positive change. But it's hard not to feel sensitive about the responses you get.
Mark
...the process that creates this boredom that we see in the world now may very well be a self-perpetuating, unconscious form of brainwashing, created by a world totalitarian government based on money, ... Wallace Shawn
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