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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most women I know dutifully go each year for their mammogram.  Most women I know also drink alcohol fairly regularly, are overweight, and eat a lot of junk and too few fruits and vegetables.  Too much emphasis on early detection and pink ribbon campaigns and not nearly enough prevention, IMHO.[/quote]

If only it were true. I'm a breast cancer survivor who has posted on this thread -- I had node-positive cancer. When I was diagnosed I had been a vegetarian my entire adult life, I was physically fit -- a runner -- and not at all overweight, I was not a person who ate junk food, at all, and as for drinking if you count two or three glasses of wine in a week as "regular" I guess I did that. No family history. Prevention is the dream but we just aren't there yet. Diet and exercise can help around the margins. Probably some breast cancers every year can be prevented through better diet and exercise. But not most of them. Just as you can't assume you are safe if you have no family history, you can't assume you are safe if you have a healthy lifestyle.[/quote]

I agree with most of what you say and I am not at all trying to blame the victim.  However, given that more than two thirds of this country is overweight or obese, I still believe that more healthful diet would make a difference at the population level.  The government currently recommends 9 servings of fruits and veggies a day.  And if you exclude french fried potatoes and ketchup, how many of us really do that?!  Even vegetarians tend to fill up on grains rather than true veggies.  So my point is not that mammograms are bad, just that they are insufficient.  Best wishes to you and may you continue to thrive.[/quote]

You would sneer at my son, who is obese. What you would not know, is that his thyroid was sluggish and he had insulin resistance and I could not get a pediatric endocrinologist to touch it, due to lawsuit issues. At that time, he was simply overweight. At 18 I took him to an adult endo who said the poor kid's metabolism was so slow, nothing but meds would have helped him, meds he was denied.[/quote]

I would most certainly not sneer at your son nor any other overweight person who was receiving lousy medical support for a medical issue.  If you choose to feel offended at my observation that the majority of our citizens do not eat healthy diets, then that is your issue.[/quote]

People focus in too much on the weight aspect, it's like they have tunnel vision and because they are thin that must mean that they are eating healthy and are getting enough exercise.  If that's true, they won't get sick - right?  Keep telling yourself that.  But it's not true.

Cancer doesn't discriminate.  You can do everything right and still get it.  I am overweight and I make an effort to eat healthy and exercise regularly - I do it to make myself feel good but I am not going to kid myself that it will make me immune to getting cancer or some of the other god awful diseases out there.  The best thing that we can hope for is that they find a kinder, gentler way to treat these insidious diseases.  Until then - I will weigh the pros and cons of these screenings.[/quote]

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