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    How do you stay on top of your health? I have a family history of ovarian cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer and heart disease. For me it's eating right and exercise. I quite smoking a long time ago and hardly ever drink anymore. I take my vitamins and try to get enough sleep. I also use my birthday as a reminder to start going for my annual check ups. So when April rolls around it must be time to start going to see the doctor(s). Today I say my OB/GYN for my Pap smear and HPV test, June will be my mamogram, August is stress test and annual physical and October is pelvic ultra sound with trans vaginal and in 2 more years a colonoscopy. It's a lot but I just think about my family and and my responsibiltiy to them. Besides, we're in control of our own health. If we don't take care of it, no one will do it for us.

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    I take vitamins (antioxidants are especially important) and exercise and drink tons of water. I try to get 6-7 hours of sleep a night (which hardly ever happens- but I really try). I also go to the doctor every year for my annual exam.
    Take the road less traveled- just make sure you have a map.

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    Same here. I used to drink alot,sleep bad, and stress myself out. Now, i have been doing good and getting 6-7 hours of sleep. I have been drinking green tea, taking a vitamin everyday, and staying on top of appointments. If i drink, i stick to no more than 4 drinks and i drink water with them to stay hydrated. I am basically a bad drunk turned good. This is because i have been thinking alot about my liver and keeping toxins out of my body as much as possible. I do not smoke and i try to stay away from it as much as i can. I have been doing very well with eliminating junk food and exercise. Most of all, i just have been keeping occupied to stop worrying. I tend to dwell on lots of things at once and i know this can be harmful in the long run. It's hard to stay on this path sometiems but im really trying...good luck to everyone else.

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    Chaos's friendly opinionated health advice:

    Sleep is absolutely key for me. For one year I slept about 9 hours/night, and that year I only got one cold, even when my partners brought home flu bugs more than once!

    (Unfortunately, because I have a sleep disorder, it's very hard to do this and make it work. I have the thing where my wake/sleep cycle is more like 17/9 than 16/8, and eventually it turns over, or I miss a lot of sleep to put things back to normal.)

    In general, though, for just about EVERYONE it's important to get this much sleep. Sleep-deprivation has a lot of negative effects:

    * causes diabetic symptoms even in baseline healthy individuals
    * causes obesity, by disrupting the flow of appetite-regulating hormone triggers
    * increases aging markers

    http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/1999...sleepdebt.html

    . . . and they've found that even though 8 hours is much better than a shorter sleep period, in general, sleep has health benefits that continue to increase past 8 hours! So yes -- when they say "beauty sleep" -- they really mean it. It can literally keep you young. :-)

    Quote from study: "All of these abnormalities quickly returned to baseline during the recovery period, when subjects spent 12 hours in bed. In fact, as the subjects spent more than eight hours a night in bed, their laboratory values moved beyond the "normal" or baseline standards, suggesting that even eight hours of sleep does not produce the fully rested state. Young adults may function best after more than eight hours of rest each night."

    Now, not everyone's body sleeps the same, so the amount you need may vary. But don't say "I only need 6 hours" unless you've tried more than 8 for a week or two and therefore have a point of comparison. :-)

    I don't smoke. I drink too much coffee, though. I don't drink too much alcohol by anyone else's standards, but I think I do it a little too frequently by my own standards.

    Milk thistle is VERY good. It cleans out the liver -- I posted another thread on it in here somewhere, and the best part is, it stops acne!

    Stay away from hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils. Saturated fats only seem to be problematic for certain people, at least as far as I've been able to gather from the current research. I get all my dairy products from RBST-free sources unless I'm out at a restaurant, and I try to patronize restaurants which also use these sources (see http://groups.northwestern.edu/prote...02/hudson.html for why: this RBST stuff is scary! Linked to cancer . . . and, if you want a practical reason to avoid it, weight gain. It's also been banned in the EU, Canada, Japan, etc, for animal cruelty reasons.)

    My family also tries to avoid meats from hormone-treated animals, and we buy free-range chicken eggs: less likely to be infected.

    With the US food supply the way it is, you gotta CYA.
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    Quote Originally Posted by thechaosfairy

    With the US food supply the way it is, you gotta CYA.
    Chaos, have you read the book "fast food nation" by eric schlosser? i think if i hadn't already been vegetarian when i read it, i would have been quick smart after reading it. eek.

    not *quite* as relevant for australia as it is for the US, but still, it opened my eyes!
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    No, but I've heard quite a bit about it. My mother had me reading "Diet For A New America" when I was 11, and I almost went vegan. Was too lazy in the end, though. :-)

    I'm veg, my partners eat meat, and I make sure they don't eat American beef that's not verifiably safe(r) . . .

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    Fast Food Nation is an amazing book!!

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    yup, it totally opened my eyes!

    also, chaosfairy, i have started MAKING SURE i get at least 8 hours sleep, trying for 9 and i am only just starting to catch up on my 4 hr/night losses over the past 2-3 weeks (i've been working until 4am then getting up at 8am to go to uni, being at uni all day and doing it again)

    that would have been all good if i now had $$ to show for it, except the reason i had to do it was the no money factor... so i'd do it again, but only if (preferably) there was more $$!
    rock on gold dust woman,
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    I'm vegan and straight edge. no drugs, booze, or cigarettes, and no meat, dairy, eggs, etc.

    keeps me slim, i almost never get sick, and i don't make bad decisions as a result of being shitfaced.

    saves me money too.

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    Yeah, there's no way I'd pull off the vegan thing! Though Whole Foods has an orgasmically good vegan chocolate layer cake......still, mmmm meat...

    I am uber-good about my health and nutrition because of a moderate (no worries) heart condition . So I get at least 6-7 hr/night sleep (or i often will pass out! i've got some funny stories ) , quit smoking, seldom drink alcohol, drink a ton of tea, take fish oil capsuls +multi-vitamin, exercise religiously, and usually end up eating about 8 servings of fruit/veggies a day. You can never be too careful when that stuff is in your genes!

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    I eat better than a rabbit. Drink plenty of H2O. Take my vitamins. Don't do drugs, never have. Don't drink excessively, occasionaly just two....I can go months w/o alcohol. I excercise. Quit coffee months ago, now i'm a tea bagging chica.

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