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Tex-Mex Quinoa Salad

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After 40 years of fighting the “War on Cancer,” we are not winning. Three times more people die of cancer now than in 1900—what has changed since then? Can we choose to NOT have cancer?

We’ve invested faith and boatloads of money in science but deaths from many types of cancer stubbornly rise. This war did generate 1.5 million scientific papers on cancer that have brought limited success with certain types and reductions in the brutal side effects of treatments. But cures are illusive and statistical bright spots are usually from “early detection.” These are conclusions of a 2008 Newsweek article (this and my other references are at www.RadioMartie.com/articles/cancer/sayno.shtml).

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In February, we asked readers to tell us why they believe they’ve failed over and over again in their health commitments and, last month, I reported back what we heard. In case you missed it, the top 10 categories for failure were:

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For thousands of years eggs have been associated with springtime and rebirth. Eggs were used by the early Christians at Easter as a symbol of the Resurrection of Jesus. To this day, many Christians also dye and/or paint eggs at Easter. In particular, members of Eastern Orthodox Churches often produce very elaborate and beautifully colored and painted eggs. Many stores sell Easter egg coloring dyes and how-to books on coloring eggs. Easter egg hunts are often given for children. In many countries, other egg games are played, such as dancing around eggs or playing catch with eggs, while trying not to break any.

Hard boiled eggs play an important role in the Jewish Passover Seder. Eggs also played a role in springtime festivals of many pagan religions as well.

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Based on your previous favorable, two-thumbs-up response to nutritionist Martie Whittekin’s last article, I thought we’d bring her back this month…by popular demand, of course! This time, Martie touches on a subject that 95% of Americans find very sensitive, but we all need to talk about it. The subject is cancer. What is cancer? Despite organizations whose businesses it is to raise money and awareness (notice which is first?), an alarming number of us continue to be diagnosed with and die of this mysterious disease called cancer. I love Martie’s approach.

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On January 12, 2010, Haiti was struck by a powerful 7.0 earthquake. The epicenter of the quake was located about 16 miles west of Port-au-Prince, the capital city of Haiti. To say that the country was taken by surprise is an understatement. There is no disaster plan for earthquakes in Haiti. The last earthquake to level Port-au-Prince was in 1770. It has been reported that over 220,000 people were killed and approximately 1.3 million were made homeless. It has also been estimated that over 300,000 people have been injured. The city of Wichita Falls, Texas, where I live, has a population of about 100,000. Just imagine, in a few minutes the population of two cities such as Wichita Falls would be dead and the entire population of Dallas, Texas homeless.

I am telling you this because, during the past month, I went to Haiti as part of a medical mission team.

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