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Cancer and Grandma Rose

Submitted by Jordan Rubin on Sun, 06/28/2009 - 12:06

I lost Grandma Rose to cancer a couple of years ago.

She was my last surviving grandparent, and as I helplessly watched cancer emaciate this once vibrant woman to a skeleton-like seventy pounds, I sat by her bedside and recited poetry, read Scripture, and sang worship songs. I felt helpless as bladder cancer invaded her body, plundered her mind, and would eventually snuff out the burning embers of nearly eighty-three years of life.

Your Body Is Like a High-Performance Engine

Submitted by Jordan Rubin on Tue, 05/12/2009 - 23:43

Although our time on earth comes with no ironclad guarantees—I learned that lesson as a twenty-year-old when I was near death for a variety of intestinal disorders—I believe that too many people ignore basic health principles, which impacts their health and their longevity.

We can’t escape the fact that physical principles govern our planet. You wouldn’t jump off the top of a ten-story building and pray that you’d instantly have the legs of a cat, which would enable you to make a safe two-point landing without breaking all the bones in your body. That’s because physical law states that what goes up must come down; in other words, people who leap off tall buildings go splat on concrete sidewalks. I’d rather live life abundantly by eating healthy organic foods and staying away from foods that are unhealthy for me—like processed foods and desserts.

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