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No matter you walk in life, I think everybody will love this movie – to sum it up, Queen Latifah begins the movie living the same mundane life the majority of people around me live – wake up, go to work, go to sleep. She keeps a book of possibilities with her about the life she WANTS but never does anything to turn these into a reality for her. She loves cooking, is in love with L.L. Cool J. (who plays a salesman) and hates the “cubicle” that her boss keeps trying to keep her in. But she sticks her head down and keeps going day by day, week by week, month by month till the years come packing on. Then… a life altering even occurs – she has 3 weeks left to live!

The transformation

In the matter of a week, Queen Latifah goes from mundane towards living the life of her dreams, blows all her money and finally LIVES LIFE. At the end of the movie – predictably – she finds out her disease was mis-diagnosed and uses that as a stepping stone towards making the rest of her book of possibilities into one of realities.

Why I loved “Last Holiday”

I absolutely love these kinds of movies as they mirror how I live my life – I push until I am exhausted then push some more… I do daily actions to make the life I want a little closer towards reality – I jump in head first – usually into a brick wall but every once in a while – a breakthrough occurs. THIS IS WHAT LIFE IS ABOUT!

Imagine… then turn it into reality!

Imagine you had 3 weeks left to live, what would you do? What would you say? How different would your life be? Well… why wait? Everyday that you are alive is one less day you will have to live – think of your life as a highway, you are born and from that moment on, you are driving 200mph straight into a brick wall, the only problem is your headlights aren’t on so you can’t see it coming. Nobody knows how long they really have to live… so why wait till its too late to make lasting and positive changes in your life?

The Bottom Line

It’s up to you if you decide to watch this movie or not – but what I do want you to think about today and every single day forth – is – what can I do today to make my dreams a reality before I hit my brick wall?

It seems I keep coming to the same themes in my quest to get health information out, I say one thing that sounds like a no-brainer and then a few months or years later, studies come out “discovering” what really is common sense. Cancer is no different.

I didn’t choose to get cancer

Let’s review, as much as 90% of ALL cancers are caused by lifestyle, the other 10% have strong genetic influences, for those unlucky 10%, I am truly sad for your plight and you have my deepest sympathies. If your entire family has gotten breast cancer by the age of 40 – there is a high likely hood that YOU will get it as well. What I don’t understand is why people simply accept this as a fact instead of doing lifestyle changes to reduce this likely hood. No, many people have not chosen to get cancer, nobody wants this condition but they do daily actions (knowingly or unknowingly) that lead to its development 90% of the time!

Two interesting studies to review if you have or worried about cancer

Here is a summary in plain English as to why people get cancer

Here is my list of things people do BY CHOICE to achieve the undesired goal of getting cancer:

1) Breath in contaminated air (smoking, smog, ozone, exhaust, particulate matter)
2) Eat contaminated food (fast food, processed food, junk food and “enriched” foods)
3) Sit on their ASS
4) Live within a contaminated body (if you maintain an unhealthy body, you are a cesspool of cancer causing agents waiting to get activated)
5) Drink unfiltered water (by the time city water gets to your tap, it has picked up so much junk that a mud pond is probably healthier to drink out of, reverse osmosis or distillation is the only way to go)
6) Avoid the doctor and dentist – these are your friends, a problem is easier to fix if you catch it EARLY.

But I have to…

Most of us live in a free society, we CHOOSE to go to work, we CHOOSE to commute, we CHOOSE to purchase junk food… the CHOICES are endless – if you make choices to stay in an unhealthy environment, then it is a choice. Don’t pass the buck and blame others or your boss, company, society or anybody else out there… YOU must make the choice. How important is your health to you? Well… how important is it? For me, my health is number one, above friends, family… anybody or anything. Without my health, I am nothing and neither are you.

“ME” Society

Right now, we live in a society that is “individualistic”, people prefer their own cars over public transportation, people want their own office instead of sharing, people want their own this, that and everything else. Cancer and many diseases are a warning sign that this kind of thinking is not healthy for any of us collectively as a species… natural selection is simply pecking off the weaker of us (genetically, habitually etc.) as it works it way up. Why are you obese? Because you don’t care about yourself… it’s that simple and guess what, others don’t care about you if you can’t take care of yourself.

Treatment vs Prevention

What does our society do in the wake of an epidemic? Forget about educating the public into doing some real action to prevent it, lets create a multi-billion dollar industry called “cancer treatment” whose sole focus is treating the people who have enough money to be able to undo the damage they have caused to themselves (again, directly or indirectly). We need a REAL change in our world societies, not this mickey mouse half-assed stuff we have done so far because of FEAR. EMBRASE change, don’t fear it!

The Bottom Line

Maybe I sound a bit rash, but I want you to get in your head that cancer in 90% can be traced back to lifestyle CHOICES, no matter how indirect. I am willing to wager that many other diseases would drop off the map as well.

I got this in an e-mail from a friend of mine and asked him right away if I can share it with the world… which I have! .

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