That was another great and interesting post Robyn.
I'm pleased I just snuck into the silent generation (1944),crikey that's 80 trips around the sun!
I used to ride my bike,through the bush,to primary school when I was about11,and remember loving my freedom.
One day on my way home two older girls,about 13,jumped from behind a tree and pushed me off my bike,off with my shorts and tried to have their way with me.I had no idea what was going on and when there was no sign of an erection ( I was petrified and had probably never had one anyway) they gave me a Chinese burn on both my wrists and with a few F bombs left me.
I can't remember how I explained the wrist burns to my Mum.
I kept riding to school with no further encounters, I guess they put me in the "too stupid" category.
Yes Robyn,I will have another try at the backwards somersault off Moona Moona creek bridge,which dismays my wife but,that's just the way it is 🤣.
But Davo, weren't you traumatised for life by your near-rape??? I nearly peed my pants laughing at the mental image of them giving you a Chinese burn before racking off.
There's just no way Davo could have been the victim here. He is surely mis-remembering. But the girls giving him a Chinese burn - they are clearly racist. Oh intersectionality is so hard! ; )
Food quality has been the changing factor for generations. Our food now is NOT the same as food from pre-20th century mass production. The "modern" application of chemicals has inherently changed the nutritive quality and biological impact of grains, fruit, vegetables and even animal foods that have been on earth since the beginning of time. Analyzing diets of people before 20th century can not be an "apples to apples" comparison. Human interference via Chemical alteration of natural, earthly food as it was created has skewed health outcomes. The chemical alterations are essentially a "wolf in sheep's clothing". Something bad arriving secretly with something good.
I agree that the dietary change is a major factor, but I don't think it's the only one. People got cancer long before the changes in agriculture and dietary composition that we've seen since the industrial revolution. Something else is happening besides those changes, to accelerate cancer rates. We're living in a chemical soup now, and it goes way beyond chemicals used in agriculture and food processing.
Re bubbling wrapping kids..... the question for me is if Gen X were so un-bubble-wrapped and hardy (all that physical labour of having to get off the couch to change the channel on the TV), why have they gone to the other extreme in raising their own kids?
Bloody good question. Millennials are by most accounts the biggest sooks, and their proxy parents are a combo of younger Baby Boomers and older X Geners. So as an X Gener, I would prefer to blame the Boomers (certainly, out of my Boomer husband and I, I was the one who encouraged our kids to ride their bikes on the street, climb trees, and catch the train on their own, while he was worried they'd get kidnapped). But in all honesty, I found mums of my kids' friends were mostly helicopter parents. They were deeply concerned that their kids might be 'emotionally unsafe'. The birthday parties were the worst: these mums would wrap their pass-the-parcel so that there was a prize in every layer, and then carefully coordinate stopping the music so that every kid got some plastic piece of crap, and nobody would be left out. Boo hoo!!!! When I played pass-the-parcel as a kid, there was only one prize in the middle and if you carried on about not getting it, the other kids would ostracise you. As they bloody should.
These mums were more likely to have younger Boomer parents, whereas my parents were Greatest + Silent Generation (they were both pretty old when I was born). So in short, Boomers are to blame for everything. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Forgot to say, my best friend and I were frequently sent to the local milkbar to buy cigarettes for her father. OMG how did we survive such irresponsibility??! How on earth did both of us manage not to be come chain smokers???!
Hahahaha! I guess my answer to that question is that you and your friend have agency. You're not helpless victims to the influences around you, as a certain sociopolitical movement would have us believe!
Here's another one that didn't make sense to me. "You can't be what you can't see" - an argument for the necessity of role models. Well, how did anyone ever do anything new then? How did all those people who were the "first" manage to do what they did? First in their family to go to university, first Indigenous person to..., first woman to... etc etc.
Stop it!! You're oppressing me with your use of rationality, which is emblematic of whiteness! Next thing you'll be telling me that black people can get good at mathematics without ever having seen a black mathematician, even though math is racist 🤣 .
I was born in 1967 and diagnosed with uterine cancer 2 years ago - on 14 October 2022. Despite refusing to get the gene-editing jab and believing I had "good genes" - my maternal grandmother lived till 91 while my mother passed away in 2020 at 84 (she'd been mentally unwell for a while) - neither were ever diagnosed as having cancer. While my father was diagnosed with cancer at around the same age as me (55), he attributed this to the chemicals he came into contact with during his years working as a research scientist. My father is still alive today, however he only required minor surgery - no chemo or radiation (still a miracle as he received the Covid jabs & booster). The C diagnosis came as a huge shock to me - especially when the doctor told me it was "bad" and that I'd require radiotherapy and most likely chemo as well. I refused conventional treatment because I no longer trust the "system". Instead, relying on my strong Christian faith and change in lifestyle to get me through. I no longer have appetite for the odd Hungry Jacks or pizza, and instead my diet consists of organic vegetables and fruits, nuts and seeds. I do my best to exercise daily and get adequate sunlight - vitamin D (weather permitting). Prior to my diagnosis I was working in a toxic job I hated as a legal secretary. My job was sedentary and I was indoors all day and exposed to air-conditioning with little clean air. There were toxic artificial air-fresheners in all the office bathrooms. Stress was unrelenting and wore me down. I put on 10kg in the last few years as I believe my cortisol was at an all-time high. I used to get regular flu jabs and took various jabs to go on trips overseas. It was only after reading an article in 2013 about the dangers of vaccines that I realised they weren't such a good idea. I believe vaccines & antibiotics taken over the years had a cumulative negative effect on my immune system, along with the stress and poor eating habits. All these things led to my developing cancer. I regret the way I lived before and refuse to go back to that way of life, instead focusing on regaining my health and my writing ambitions.
Thank you so much for sharing your story, Carmel! I'm sorry you had to go through such a traumatic time, but it seems to me that you've leveraged that horrible experience to make changes in your life that will not only give you the best possible chance to heal from cancer, but have also vastly improved your quality of life. I've walked alongside many clients on their cancer journeys, and I've consistently observed that those who take their diagnosis as a wake-up call - a cry from deep within their soul, that they've been on the wrong track and urgently need to reorient themselves - do the best.
Thanks Robyn. Just read your excellent post about the Ketogenic diet. I started to listen to some of these videos by Dr Thomas Seyfried but tuned out pretty quickly. My research has demonstrated that plant-based is the way to go, so opposite of Keto. Chris Wark from ChrisBeatCancer has also debunked the theory, and actually states it could do way more harm than good. I'm sticking to my vegan protocol!
Chris' story is astonishing. The mere fact that there are people like Chris, and Ruth Heidrich, and Janette Murray-Wakelin, who have beaten aggressive cancers with a dietary approach that's the polar opposite to Seyfried's (i.e. high in carbohydrates from unprocessed plant foods) shows that Seyfried's theory of cancer causation and treatment is, at the very least, incomplete.
With RFK Jr joining Trump and the two of them bringing on board Dr. Casey Means, I am hoping the awakening to how our governments are trying to place profits over health will continue to be exposed. COVID was our great awakening and now we buy most of our food from three local farmers. Trying our best to avoid the corrupted US medical system!
There's just no difference between government and the corporations which sell poisonous food to us, and then sell us medicine to 'treat' the conditions caused by the poisonous food. People think of 'fascism' as jackbooted men in Hugo Boss uniforms marching down their main street, but Mussolini's definition was simply the merger of the corporation and the state. That's where we are, both in your country and in mine. George Carlin's 'Big Club' rant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso) is spot on:
"The real owners: the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians; the politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice - you have owners. They own you, they own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well we know what they want: they want more for themselves and less for everybody else."
Increasingly, I'm seeing no other option but revolution. It may well look very different from previous revolutions, and hopefully it will be a lot less bloody. But I can't see how the current political structures can be reformed; they're past saving. The situation in your home state is ample proof of that. And on that note, I hope your fellow North Carolinians are getting back on their feet. I'm seeing a lot of videos of ordinary people helping each other. That's our future.
Huh, this has really made me think. Both Marxism and the low-carb movement inspire an almost religious level of passion in their adherents (although to be fair, I've met vegans who have a religious level of devotion to their cause too). I'm now pondering the factors that Marxism and low-carbism have in common...
Wow!
That was another great and interesting post Robyn.
I'm pleased I just snuck into the silent generation (1944),crikey that's 80 trips around the sun!
I used to ride my bike,through the bush,to primary school when I was about11,and remember loving my freedom.
One day on my way home two older girls,about 13,jumped from behind a tree and pushed me off my bike,off with my shorts and tried to have their way with me.I had no idea what was going on and when there was no sign of an erection ( I was petrified and had probably never had one anyway) they gave me a Chinese burn on both my wrists and with a few F bombs left me.
I can't remember how I explained the wrist burns to my Mum.
I kept riding to school with no further encounters, I guess they put me in the "too stupid" category.
Yes Robyn,I will have another try at the backwards somersault off Moona Moona creek bridge,which dismays my wife but,that's just the way it is 🤣.
Thanks Robyn,
Davo 😊.
But Davo, weren't you traumatised for life by your near-rape??? I nearly peed my pants laughing at the mental image of them giving you a Chinese burn before racking off.
There's just no way Davo could have been the victim here. He is surely mis-remembering. But the girls giving him a Chinese burn - they are clearly racist. Oh intersectionality is so hard! ; )
Yeah, if only those girls had been disabled and also 'persons of colour', then their hand would definitely trump Davo's.
Food quality has been the changing factor for generations. Our food now is NOT the same as food from pre-20th century mass production. The "modern" application of chemicals has inherently changed the nutritive quality and biological impact of grains, fruit, vegetables and even animal foods that have been on earth since the beginning of time. Analyzing diets of people before 20th century can not be an "apples to apples" comparison. Human interference via Chemical alteration of natural, earthly food as it was created has skewed health outcomes. The chemical alterations are essentially a "wolf in sheep's clothing". Something bad arriving secretly with something good.
I agree that the dietary change is a major factor, but I don't think it's the only one. People got cancer long before the changes in agriculture and dietary composition that we've seen since the industrial revolution. Something else is happening besides those changes, to accelerate cancer rates. We're living in a chemical soup now, and it goes way beyond chemicals used in agriculture and food processing.
Re bubbling wrapping kids..... the question for me is if Gen X were so un-bubble-wrapped and hardy (all that physical labour of having to get off the couch to change the channel on the TV), why have they gone to the other extreme in raising their own kids?
Bloody good question. Millennials are by most accounts the biggest sooks, and their proxy parents are a combo of younger Baby Boomers and older X Geners. So as an X Gener, I would prefer to blame the Boomers (certainly, out of my Boomer husband and I, I was the one who encouraged our kids to ride their bikes on the street, climb trees, and catch the train on their own, while he was worried they'd get kidnapped). But in all honesty, I found mums of my kids' friends were mostly helicopter parents. They were deeply concerned that their kids might be 'emotionally unsafe'. The birthday parties were the worst: these mums would wrap their pass-the-parcel so that there was a prize in every layer, and then carefully coordinate stopping the music so that every kid got some plastic piece of crap, and nobody would be left out. Boo hoo!!!! When I played pass-the-parcel as a kid, there was only one prize in the middle and if you carried on about not getting it, the other kids would ostracise you. As they bloody should.
These mums were more likely to have younger Boomer parents, whereas my parents were Greatest + Silent Generation (they were both pretty old when I was born). So in short, Boomers are to blame for everything. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
Forgot to say, my best friend and I were frequently sent to the local milkbar to buy cigarettes for her father. OMG how did we survive such irresponsibility??! How on earth did both of us manage not to be come chain smokers???!
Hahahaha! I guess my answer to that question is that you and your friend have agency. You're not helpless victims to the influences around you, as a certain sociopolitical movement would have us believe!
Here's another one that didn't make sense to me. "You can't be what you can't see" - an argument for the necessity of role models. Well, how did anyone ever do anything new then? How did all those people who were the "first" manage to do what they did? First in their family to go to university, first Indigenous person to..., first woman to... etc etc.
Stop it!! You're oppressing me with your use of rationality, which is emblematic of whiteness! Next thing you'll be telling me that black people can get good at mathematics without ever having seen a black mathematician, even though math is racist 🤣 .
You crack me up
Gallows humour, my dear!
Yup. And ain't it grand!
I was born in 1967 and diagnosed with uterine cancer 2 years ago - on 14 October 2022. Despite refusing to get the gene-editing jab and believing I had "good genes" - my maternal grandmother lived till 91 while my mother passed away in 2020 at 84 (she'd been mentally unwell for a while) - neither were ever diagnosed as having cancer. While my father was diagnosed with cancer at around the same age as me (55), he attributed this to the chemicals he came into contact with during his years working as a research scientist. My father is still alive today, however he only required minor surgery - no chemo or radiation (still a miracle as he received the Covid jabs & booster). The C diagnosis came as a huge shock to me - especially when the doctor told me it was "bad" and that I'd require radiotherapy and most likely chemo as well. I refused conventional treatment because I no longer trust the "system". Instead, relying on my strong Christian faith and change in lifestyle to get me through. I no longer have appetite for the odd Hungry Jacks or pizza, and instead my diet consists of organic vegetables and fruits, nuts and seeds. I do my best to exercise daily and get adequate sunlight - vitamin D (weather permitting). Prior to my diagnosis I was working in a toxic job I hated as a legal secretary. My job was sedentary and I was indoors all day and exposed to air-conditioning with little clean air. There were toxic artificial air-fresheners in all the office bathrooms. Stress was unrelenting and wore me down. I put on 10kg in the last few years as I believe my cortisol was at an all-time high. I used to get regular flu jabs and took various jabs to go on trips overseas. It was only after reading an article in 2013 about the dangers of vaccines that I realised they weren't such a good idea. I believe vaccines & antibiotics taken over the years had a cumulative negative effect on my immune system, along with the stress and poor eating habits. All these things led to my developing cancer. I regret the way I lived before and refuse to go back to that way of life, instead focusing on regaining my health and my writing ambitions.
Thank you so much for sharing your story, Carmel! I'm sorry you had to go through such a traumatic time, but it seems to me that you've leveraged that horrible experience to make changes in your life that will not only give you the best possible chance to heal from cancer, but have also vastly improved your quality of life. I've walked alongside many clients on their cancer journeys, and I've consistently observed that those who take their diagnosis as a wake-up call - a cry from deep within their soul, that they've been on the wrong track and urgently need to reorient themselves - do the best.
Thanks Robyn. Just read your excellent post about the Ketogenic diet. I started to listen to some of these videos by Dr Thomas Seyfried but tuned out pretty quickly. My research has demonstrated that plant-based is the way to go, so opposite of Keto. Chris Wark from ChrisBeatCancer has also debunked the theory, and actually states it could do way more harm than good. I'm sticking to my vegan protocol!
Chris' story is astonishing. The mere fact that there are people like Chris, and Ruth Heidrich, and Janette Murray-Wakelin, who have beaten aggressive cancers with a dietary approach that's the polar opposite to Seyfried's (i.e. high in carbohydrates from unprocessed plant foods) shows that Seyfried's theory of cancer causation and treatment is, at the very least, incomplete.
With RFK Jr joining Trump and the two of them bringing on board Dr. Casey Means, I am hoping the awakening to how our governments are trying to place profits over health will continue to be exposed. COVID was our great awakening and now we buy most of our food from three local farmers. Trying our best to avoid the corrupted US medical system!
There's just no difference between government and the corporations which sell poisonous food to us, and then sell us medicine to 'treat' the conditions caused by the poisonous food. People think of 'fascism' as jackbooted men in Hugo Boss uniforms marching down their main street, but Mussolini's definition was simply the merger of the corporation and the state. That's where we are, both in your country and in mine. George Carlin's 'Big Club' rant (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso) is spot on:
"The real owners: the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians; the politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice - you have owners. They own you, they own everything. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations. They've long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying, lobbying to get what they want. Well we know what they want: they want more for themselves and less for everybody else."
Increasingly, I'm seeing no other option but revolution. It may well look very different from previous revolutions, and hopefully it will be a lot less bloody. But I can't see how the current political structures can be reformed; they're past saving. The situation in your home state is ample proof of that. And on that note, I hope your fellow North Carolinians are getting back on their feet. I'm seeing a lot of videos of ordinary people helping each other. That's our future.
Sigh. Low carb and Marxism. Two ideologies that never seem to die, regardless of the copious amounts of evidence against them!
Huh, this has really made me think. Both Marxism and the low-carb movement inspire an almost religious level of passion in their adherents (although to be fair, I've met vegans who have a religious level of devotion to their cause too). I'm now pondering the factors that Marxism and low-carbism have in common...