The Savvy Sister

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• Cool Hip Holiday Gifts for the Health Conscious

  By Susan on November 14, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  As the holidays fast approach I can’t help thinking of gift giving…and getting.  Yes, I’m grateful for everything I have and of course I would never tell a gift-giver that I didn’t like their gift (to their face), but for… Read More ›

• Why breast cancer survivors should eat soy….every day.

  By Susan on October 20, 2014 • ( 28 )

  

  In my continuing posts focused on breast cancer this month, I bring you soy in all its cancer-preventing glory! I am a stage III, ER positive breast cancer survivor and I eat soy every day. Why?  Because I want to… Read More ›

• Women don’t die of breast cancer

  By Susan on October 14, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  In the world known as breast cancer awareness are the women with metastatic breast cancer trying to navigate their way through the tangled tsunami of pink ribbons.  These are the women (and men) with metastatic (Stage IV) breast cancer:cancer that… Read More ›

• So pissed at this Breastcancer.org TV ad I could scream!! (and I did!)

  By Susan on October 7, 2014 • ( 18 )

  

  I just assume that I’m going to get bombarded with crap during breast cancer awareness month, but this TV commercial just made me want to jump through the screen.  It’s an ad from BreastCancer.org and it’s telling women some facts…and… Read More ›

• Plant-based gluten-free whole roasted Cauliflower! You’ve got to try this one!

  By Susan on October 3, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  This easy vegan, gluten-free whole roasted cauliflower recipe is one that I adopted from a not-so-healthy recipe.  It’s so easy, and uses cauliflower in an unusual way. It’s very visually appealing and very easy! Cauliflower belongs to the cruciferous family… Read More ›

• Breast Cancer…exactly what are we fighting?

  By Susan on September 30, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  For the month of October I will be exposing truths about breast cancer and bringing you some little known facts that may shock you.  If you listen to the hoop-la about how we are “winning the fight” against breast cancer, you might think… Read More ›

• Are you missing this important key to wellness?

  By Susan on September 25, 2014 • ( 5 )

  

  You’re eating right, you’re on the treadmill, you’re doing yoga…are you missing this?

• Yippee! Pinktober is early this year!

  By Susan on September 20, 2014 • ( 6 )

  

  When the mornings turn cool, I always know that October is right around the corner.  And that means lots of sickening pink crap in the grocery and department stores. I saw it already: Pantene put a pink ribbon on their… Read More ›

• Mastin Kipp of The Daily Love is adorable….and here’s what we ate.

  By Susan on September 18, 2014 • ( 7 )

  

  Mastin Kipp is adorable.  I know…tell you something you don’t know. For those of you who don’t know Mastin, he is the brains behind the wildly popular twitter and e-mail business called “The Daily Love”. What started out as a way… Read More ›

• THIS is the reason healthcare and health in the US sucks

  By Susan on September 12, 2014 • ( 11 )

  

  My sister sent me this photo who said a friend took it while she was waiting for an appointment in her doctor’s office.  IN HER DOCTOR’S OFFICE! Notice the cancer promoting artificial sweetener in the back.  I’ll bet this MD… Read More ›

• New worldwide guidelines on cancer-causing arsenic in rice

  By Susan on July 20, 2014 • ( 10 )

  

  Brown rice healthier than white? Not when it comes to arsenic levels. On July 18, 2014 The Codex Alimentarius Commission (in charge of all the alimentary canals in the world I guess) issued a statement that it has set a… Read More ›

• Chemobrain? or PTSD?

  By Susan on June 28, 2014 • ( 4 )

  

  As much as 35% of all people that have gone through treatment for cancer have full blown Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.  And up to 80% exhibit some symptoms related to PTSD. We most often think of PTSD as something that… Read More ›

• Do you need a feces transplant for better health?

  By Susan on June 25, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  Yes, you read that right.  There’s now a procedure called a fecal transplant…and it is what you think it is.  Poop from one person is placed into the colon of another.  When I first heard of this, aside from the… Read More ›

• Get breathalyzed…for lung cancer

  By Susan on June 20, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  A new lung cancer test measures the amount of a tumor enzyme in your breath. I love when technology is not only cool, but can help save lives as well. Enter NaNose. (even the name is fun to say…) Presenters… Read More ›

• Cancer Survival 101

  By Susan on June 12, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  I was honored to speak at The Renewal Center in Crystal Lake IL to a group of cancer survivors about what they can do to be at their optimal level of health after a cancer diagnosis. It was a blast!… Read More ›

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