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My MIL is a breast cancer survivor but she does have a lot of stress still and some new health concerns have came up. I’m searching high and low for a nice Christmas gift. She likes to garden and cook and things like that, but she has every cookbook and magazine subscription and garden tool under the sun. She’s an outdoorsy type person but has been taking it easy this year.
I’m asking in this section because it’s where I most frequent.
Any Christmas gift suggestions? Anything to make her life easier?
(A physical gift. She has plenty of emotional and home support).

a cooking or baking class?? one for fun… or if you want to give her some sort of relaxation day…how about a day at the spa??? hair done nails done..massage???

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With Christmas and almost everyone’s birthdays coming up, I’m looking for unique gifts for my parents and grandparents.

They all have everything they could possibly need and anything significant that they would want is WAY out of my budget (cars, houses, etc haha).

I’d love to give them all something they could experience, and together as a couple also. I’d like to find something within driving distance of our town. We all live in and around Peterborough, Ontario so nothing more than a few hours away tops. I know I can search the net and go to CAA to find ideas, but I’m hoping that people on here might have some great suggestions too that may not be advertised!

A bit about them:

My parents love to dress up nicely, they love eating at nice restaurants, they enjoy shopping, catching a show whether it’s a concert or a comedy show. There are a lot of neat adventures like this at casinos, but my mother works for the OLG so she can’t gamble anywhere in Ontario so anything at a casino here is out of the question. If there’s anything neat at a casino in Niagara Fall, US or in Quebec, I’m open to suggestions! Also anything not casino oriented is awesome too! My budget for them is $150-$200. I was thinking of having everyone take care of one component to a weekend away for them, and my budget would be for one thing (dinner and a show, hotel, etc).

My paternal grandparents have a home and a cottage, boats, cars, etc. The love going on cruises and are very family oriented. My budget for them is $50-$100. My grandfather doesn’t drink and my grandmother is on a strict diet due to heart health issues, so it’s a little more hard to find something food-oriented for them. If you know of anything neat for them to do anywhere from Toronto to Kingston, and anywhere around Peterborough, Haliburton, Bobcaygeon, etc. I’d love to hear about it!

My maternal grandparents don’t generally do things as a couple because they are both so busy. My grandmother is the founder and president of a Canadian Dragon boat team that races literally all over the world to raise funds for breast cancer research. My grandfather loves puttering around on the farm (there are no animals on this farm aside from cats), loves old cars and spends a lot of his time making videos and photo-slides on his macs (yes, plural). It would be nice to find something that they could do together that would give them a memorable evening to make a video or slide-show with

Any and all suggestions would be fantastic. Please only suggest experience-oriented things. Like I said, they all own more than enough and we all enjoy experiencing life and time together more than anything! Thanks to all who respond!

I live in-between Kingston and Toronto so I think I could help;

For Anybody;
There are stores called "Things engraved" you can get practically anything engraved, christmas ornaments etc.
There are talking ornaments (better for your grandparents).

Parents:
I think you should do two nights out,
One; Get them 2 gift certificates for the movies (about $20 all together not including food) and a certificate for a night out at a fancy restaurant( Probobly anywhere from $20-$50 depends where). On the package that you wrap it in make sure they know its specifically for them.

Mom:
Perhaps a Necklace or earings, I got my mom a necklace a few years ago and she always wears it, it was $100 I think I got it at Ben Moss?
Does she like spa-like things, perhaps get her a gift certificate for you and her to the spa and have a mother daughter day? Or just a gift certificate with bath soaps, mani pedi stuff, makeup, etc.
Dad:
Does he like, sports teams? Peanuts? etc?
If he does get him like a gift basket with a hat with something he likes (hockey,etc) and get him a couple of snacks he likes and maybe a pair of slippers to sit back and relax, put this into a gift basket.
If he doesn’t is he into stuff like hardware stores etc, buy a broom and a gift certificate for a hardware store (or any store really..) and then tape it to the bottom bristles of the broom. Wrap the broom obviously and then he’ll think she just got me a broom , but on chrsitmas he will be like oh! haha We did this with my dad once.

Paternal Grandparents:
Sounds like they like to travel a lot,
go to Dollar stores and michaels, and other craft stores and get some scrapbooking supplies, and get their pictures from they’re favourite memories and scrapbook, this can be a lengthy process but totally worth their reaction. (: This can also be pricey so it fits in your price range. If you don’t know how to scrapbook google can help you, its really simple.

Maternal granparents:
Get your grandmother maybe a gift basket with things you find that you purchase and a donation goes to breast cancer reasearch.. (theyre bracelets and keychains) also include an envelope that includes a receipt saying you donated (insert money amount here) to the cancer society. in the gift basket throw in a couple more things she likes, maybe line it with a blanket, and throw in some chocolate?
For your maternal grandfather, maybe there are some model cars( like small ones about the size of your fingertips to almost your elbow) you can get him? I have a mac, I think there are other programs you can get to enhance your videos etc, maybe look for those…?
Perhaps you can create a sldieshow of your own for them with some pictures of their experiences.

(: Hope these help! Some stores where you can find these things in the area I can think of are;
-Micaels
-Dollar Stores-
-Drug stores (gift certificates, anywhere really you can get them)
- Things engraved
-Ben moss, charms
- Laura Secord

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I have a friend who was just diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 28 and wanted to put together a "gift bag" of sorts with things for her during Kemo. We already have p/j, slippers, bath products, socks or slippers, something for her head (scarf or some kind of hat) and i was wondering if there was anything else that we should put in the bag?

any suggestions would be great!
Thanks

Hard Candy helps with the metallic taste from chemo. Chemo usually runs from 1 to 6 hours depending on the medicine given so an MP3 player, magazines, word search’s, books, etc. is a god-send. You also tend to get cold during treatments so a good throw blanket is great. If she has had surgery make her a miniture pillow to keep her seatbelt from rubbing on her surgery site. These are all the things that I carried with me to all my chemo treatments. I also carried a laptop computer with DVD’s to watch.

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Bruce Berkowsky, N.M.D, M.H., HMC

Overview

A lifelong legacy of good health emanates from the institution of correct feeding practices at birth. Unfortunately, in this era, feeding children in accordance with Nature’s dictates has fallen out of fashion.

Good parents make every effort to provide for their children materially and to orient their moral compasses. But their nutritional guidance responsibility is often neglected. As a result, many parents unwittingly subvert their offspring’s health and human potential. Proper feeding not only benefits the child in the immediate sense, but also serves as a paradigm the child is likely to adopt and pursue throughout his or her adulthood. Proverbs 22:6 teaches: “Train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.”

For the most part, disease is not, as is popularly thought, a direct outcome of microbial infection; rather, it’s the result of disregarding one of Nature’s primary laws: Human beings have an inherent relationship with those fundamental elements necessary for life: proper diet; pure water; fresh air; adequate sunlight, exercise, warmth, rest and sleep; emotional harmony; proper posture. Disease is an outgrowth of a deficiency or excess of one or more of them.

Violation of this law leads to the two primary roots of disease: autotoxemia and enervation. Autotoxemia is a polluted state of the internal milieu. This toxic burden impedes all bodily functions, including elimination, and so increases and perpetuates itself. Enervation is a state characterized by depletion of nerve force and reduction of the body’s resistance to infection. These two conjugated factors fuel each other and constitute the primary disease state. Acute ailments such as colds and flu as well as chronic ailments such as recurrent middle ear infections, diarrhea and eczema are secondary effects of this primary state.

When systemic level of toxicity surpasses the body’s threshold point of tolerance, a crisis of toxemia ensues. Medical science classifies these crises as acute “diseases,” according to their unique symptom complexes (e.g., bronchitis, colds, flu, pneumonia, etc.).

In reality, these crises are the body’s urgent efforts toward elimination of toxins. The crisis of toxemia continues until the level of toxicity has been reduced (via sweating, fever, vomiting, diarrhea, nasal drainage) to below the threshold point of tolerance, after which it subsides as naturally as it arose. However, if drugs are used to suppress toxic discharges, the poisonous matter (which the body is seeking to expel) is forced away from eliminating organs and secreting surfaces, and forced deeper into the tissues which further lowers the body’s vitality, setting the wheels of chronic disease in motion.

In this era, traditional naturopathic knowledge regarding childhood feeding has fallen into near-total obscurity. Harry Benjamin, N.D. writes in Everybody’s Guide To Nature Cure (1936): “Parents assume that the children’s ailments of today are something inevitable. So they are –if children are fed as they are today.” The import of this observation has increased exponentially in this ubiquitous junk-foods era.

Aliveness is dependent upon what naturopaths refer to as vital force and Chinese medicine calls chi. Vital force is the fundamental energy sustaining life and is present in every cell’s vibratory, biological process. The Chinese feel that a large proportion of vital force is liberated from food upon digestion and assimilation. Thus, the quantity of vital force—the very force that is the impetus of growth and development—is dependent upon our food’s quality.

Medical science now clearly acknowledges that childhood diet is a critical factor in adult health. A recent study published in the International Journal of Cancer found that weekly servings of French fries to girls between the ages of 3 and 5 significantly increases their risk of developing breast cancer later in life.

By now, the link between improper childhood feeding and lifelong obesity with all its associated health risks (e.g., diabetes, heart disease, cancer) is well-established. Astonishingly, 60% of American children are obese (i.e., over 30% of body weight is fat). Unlike adults, a child’s body, when challenged by an excess quantity of fat, creates new fat cells rather than relying upon the storage capacity of pre-existing cells. At maturity, the number of fat cells is fixed and can never be reduced. Normally, the adult body contains 30 to 40 billion fat cells. Adults who became overweight as children may house as many as 90 to 120 billion fat cells.

In cases of childhood physical illness and behavioral dysfunction, a pivotal and often overlooked factor is improper diet. In the digestive system, intestinal villi represent a type of “root system” charged with absorbing nutrients from the small intestine and transporting them to the blood. Like a plant, the integrity and vitality of the human organism is largely dependent upon its root strength and the quality of accessed nourishment.

Poor nutrition directly contributes to behavioral- as well as physical dysfunction in a variety of ways. Vital nutrient deficiency is an obvious one. For instance, zinc-deficient children are not only immunologically compromised, they are also subject to learning disabilities, moodiness and proneness to violent behavior.

Proper childhood feeding actually begins before birth. William Howard Hay, M.D. writes in Superior Health Through nutrition (1891): “As we eat, so are we. We die, cell by cell, every day of our lives and, cell by cell, we are recreated. We not only have the means of proper re-creation in our hands through our manner of feeding, but also original creation [of cells] depends largely on the state of the mother’s chemistry.” Thus, the importance of optimal prenatal nutrition cannot be overemphasized. For many children, a pattern of food allergies, obesity and chronic unwellness is institutionalized before they are even born

Mother’s Milk

Human milk meets the infant’s special growth requirements. To accommodate evolving nutritive requirements, both composition and volume of breast milk change as the infant matures. Each species’ milk is adapted precisely to the specifications of its own young. Accordingly, vast differences exist between nutrient profiles of human milk and those of other species. For instance, human milk contains 1% - 2% protein as opposed to the 3.4% protein-content in cow’s milk.

Importantly, human milk’s amino acid composition is ideally suited to facilitate the great degree of brain growth that occurs in a child’s first year of life. Cow’s milk, on the other hand, is structurally adapted to rapid development of muscle and bone mass rather than brain tissue (adult cows have relatively small brains).

Whether milk or soy based, commercial baby formulas are a highly problematic substitute for mother’s milk. Commercial formulas evoke diverse allergic reactions which often affect digestive function. Formulas generally provide difficult-to-digest proteins (more than baby can absorb), giving rise to putrefying accumulations in the bowels. Also, undigested protein can enter the bloodstream which causes distal-site inflammation and elicits adverse immunological responses.

Mother’s milk contains only one type of sugar: lactose. Artificial formulas are laden with refined sugars such as sucrose, maltose and dextrose which tend to ferment in the child’s digestive tract, interfere with the digestion of formula protein-content and lay the groundwork for many catarrhal disorders associated with childhood, including chronic ear infection, tonsillitis, croup and colic.

The Nursing Mother’s Proper Diet And Lifestyle

Despite breast milk’s superiority to the milk of other species and to commercial formulas, this does not mean that all breast milk is of good quality. Quality of breast milk will vary in accordance with the quality of mother’s diet and lifestyle. A healthy, thriving child is most likely the product of a nursing mother’s lifestyle that is characterized by: proper diet; adequate fresh air, exercise, sunshine, rest and sleep; emotional balance; avoidance of negative influences.

The nursing mother should eat a high water-content diet consisting of large quantities of fresh fruits and vegetables and comparatively smaller quantities of whole grains, legumes, seeds, nuts, fish, skinless chicken and turkey. She must also avoid all common allergenic foods (e.g., dairy, wheat, peanuts, etc.) and rotate moderately allergenic foods such as corn and eggs on a four-day schedule.

The Three Feeding Periods Of Childhood

Ideally, childhood feeding should consist of three clearly demarcated phases:

1) Breast milk period: breast milk is taken along with supplemental fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices.

2) Transition period: intermediate-phase when the child takes both breast milk and proper solid foods.

3) Post-weaning period: the child subsists on a diet similar to that of adults.

Ultimately, the best way to ensure a child’s physical and behavioral integrity is through careful and knowledgeable implementation of each phase. For example, a common feeding error in infants is the premature introduction of starches. Starches do not occur in breast milk and infants are unable to digest it.

Starch digestion begins in the mouth as saliva contains the starch-splitting enzyme salivary amylase. Noted naturopath Paavo Airola, N.D. writes in Every Woman’s Book: “Salivary amylase will not be present in a child in any appreciable quantity for at least 6 months. Another starch-digesting enzyme secreted by the pancreas is also not present in sufficient amount to digest starch….The baby’s digestive system is not equipped to efficiently digest starch foods until 1-year or longer, and therefore, he should not be fed starchy foods for at least that long.”

It’s common practice for mothers to introduce cereals to 4-month-old infants. This crucial feeding error may impact the child’s health for the rest of her life. Herbert Shelton, N.D., founder of the Natural Hygiene System, writes in The Hygienic Care Of Children: “The present widespread practice of feeding cereals, baked potatoes, bread and other starch foods to babies is responsible for much illness in them. Indigestion, constipation, diarrhea, colic, skin rashes, tonsillitis, etc. are chief among the outgrowths of such feeding.” I have always advised mothers against feeding starches to babies until they are at least 14-months-old.

Clearly, investing in a child’s future must go beyond a college education fund to include parental investment of time and effort to learn about and implement optimal prenatal and childhood nutrition. In fact, it is one of the most important gifts a child can receive.

    

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