Asparagus- A cancer cure?

Rocquie said:

Hi Becky (and Bill)

Good to see you! I guess we all got busy during the holidays, but maybe we can get back to some good discussions now.

Yes, I remember those mosquito trucks. I thought that stuff smelled horrible. It burned my eyes and made me cough. And when the trucks didn't come around, my Mother was spraying us with repellent. She still uses that stuff as well as having "ChemLawn" come every month to spray her yard and Orkin to spray inside her house. 

Myself, I'm not scared of bugs or weeds. We have never used chemicals in our yard or home. When my Mother visits, she is always amazed by how many birds we have in our yard, even though we don't have any feeders. Yes, they can find bugs and worms to eat!

Don't be a stranger,

Rocquie

 

Hi Roquie

I asked Bill and he remembers it being very sweet smelling.  I have no clue why.  The years would be around 54 to 57 or longer.  Perhaps it was a different poison.  Know how you feel about the birds etc.  Whenever they are dead on their backs (insects too ) they've been poisoned.  We hate it.  Of course you need to be balanced, we can't get overrun, but you don't need napalm.  I have to say, I have to grit my teeth when the starlings eat every last fig off our tree!  The cancer center just called and scheduled Bill for his last rituxan in Feb and a CT scan.  He will be 2 yrs. in remission.  Yay!

Thinking of you, Becky

COBRA666 said:

Cobra Name

. No. I have 2 Shelby Cobra cars. I tried to use 66 cobra for the years of the cars. It would not let me so I tried cobra 66 and still would not let me. I added another 6 and it went thru and now I am stuck with it. John

Snake Owner

John,

In 1973 my brother had a 68 Shelby GT 500 (Mustang), which came from the factory with a 428, factory roll cage, 5-point seat belts, sequential turn signals, etc. Dual four barrels from the factory. It was far from pristine, but even in its condition would be worth at least $60,000 today (he lost it in a divorce the next year) . I met a dentist with two NEW (I think they were 2009 model) Mustang Shelby GT 500s. He said he would WAY rather have my brother's old car, which makes sense.  My brother also had a 68 Mustang GT fastback, highly tricked out, T-10 toploader, etc . Rusty even then, and he essentially dogged it into the junkyard .  As if that were not enough, a 68 Thunderbird two door, with a 429 "Thunderjet" engine. The 429 was first introduced by Ford in the 68 T-Bird, hence the name "Thunder." By the next year you could get the engine in Mustangs, Torinos, and even in the LTD (I have a buddy with a 69 LTD with the 429).

At local car shows I see numerous Cobra kit cars, which are stunning. Not from the original years, but amazing, and ultra powerful in the engine compartment.  So close to identical that a non-expert could not tell them apart.

I have a lowly 70 LTD two-door with a 351. I piddle with it when I can . Needs paint, which I will get to when I can .  I was at a show when I met the friend I mentioned above. I was looking at his 69 LTD and said to him, "I have a 70, same body style. He said "Two door?" and I said "yea." He asked what color, and I said "White, like yours." He asked what color top, and I said "blue, like yours." He asked what color interior, and I said "blue, like yours."  The two cars are virtually identical, except for engines and being one year apart.  What were the chances of a meeting like that ?  I have owned the 70 for six or seven years now, and have not seen but three other 70s during that whole time, and then see a 69 that is virtually identical.  I bought mine from the daughter of the original owner. Her dad had bought it new locally.  She said it was the car she had learned to drive in, and she was crying like a baby when I put it on the car trailer and pulled it out of her yard.

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COBRA666 said:

first car

  My wifes first car was a 66 Mustang as well. It had a 289 engine. Her next car was also a 66 Mustang with a shot engine and transmission. We bought it that way on purpose. I put a Boss 302 engine and tranny in it. It was fast !!!! My first car was a 1948 Chevy pick-up with a 6 cylinder and would not get out of it's own way. Wouldn't do 60 mph even if you ran it off  the Montgomery Ward skyscraper. The mechanical fuel pump was so weak it cut off if I took a turn too fast. I spray painted it Caterpillar yellow and pin striped the runs. I was the hit of my 10th grade prom with that truck, my pink carnation, tuxedo coat and blue jeans and tennis shoes. I even put a real outhouse in the bed and drove around town for a couple of months. BUT...... IT WAS MINE AND I LOVED IT!!!! The 2 Cobras are not Mustangs,  they are Carroll Shelby Cobras. I have a pic of one of them on the 3rd page of my expressions page.  John

Stangs

My aunt has a 64 1/2 Mustang in her yard, with a 289 engine. Her husband's car, who went senile and has since died. It was nice ten years ago, but has rusted apart since.  People and cars: both fall apart.

unknown said:

Health nut

Interesting conversation. I have always been slim, fit, very active and eaten a good diet high in fruits and vegetables. I also have used vitamins and food supplements for many years. I have relatives who are just the opposite. Even though they are older than me and overweight (several smoke) I have cancer and they do not. My brother is a microbiologist. He recommends to not overdo the fresh fruit and vegetables, especially those which are imported, as they may contain chemicals. Canned vegetables and fruit contain BPA from the lining of the can. Bottled water has BPA. Best advice is don't eat a lot of ANYTHING and don't make the assumption that all fruits and vegetables are good for you. Avoid bottled water and fruit juices.  Really, other the vitamins you get in a small serving, fruit juice is no better than soda. It raises triglycerides and can contribute heavily to heart disease and diabetes. Also we must accept the probability that some cancers are naturally occuring, either genetic or otherwise. I am amused by the paleo "caveman" diet. The average caveman appears to have lived about 25 years!

Foods

GKH,

I agree with all you have written on this topic. I was listening to a health show on the radio about a year ago. The guest was a nutrition writer/expert, who is also into "holistic health." She had come down with late-stage cancer, and her oncologist recommended immediate chemo. She decided on "herbal treatments" instead, coupled with yoga-meditation, in which she "visualized the elimination of the cancer cells from her body."  She was soon much worse and began chemo in the hospital soon thereafter, and gained full remission.

Jim Fixx, the Run for Your Heart author who preached how to keep a healthy heart into old age via exercise and diet, died at the age of 52, while running !  Of a heart attack !  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Fixx  His arteries were mostly massively clogged, and he was the world's authority on "how to avoid coronary heart disease !"

People in our "junk food" USA now live longer than they have ever lived before, although obesity is a huge epidemic.  I am perplexed when some authors complain that women get poorer health care in the US than men, when women on average consistently live about five years longer than men.  I can't  "do that math"  in such a way that the statistics woprk out.

My grandma out on the Kansas farm used to have a rhyme about eating our vegtables (frersh from the garden in their yard):

"Eat first what you don't like, then what you do." My grandpa always replied" Eat what you like, and stick the rest in your pocket."
PS: He outlived grandma by many years.

People cling to nutrition theories for a sense of control; they want to feel like life is not random, like they can do something. It is a psychological mechanism that yields comfort.  I eat as healthy as I am comfortable with, have never smoked in my life, etc.  

But it is still the luck of the draw....

max

Rocquie said:

Paleo

GKH, I am also amused by the paleo diet craze. Especially when I see recipes for paleo pie crust, paleo brownies, paleo ice cream. Ha-ha-ha.

And yes, I believe you are right and that variety is very important in our diets.

 

Chiefs

My chiefs in the Navy had a three-staple diet:  Cigarettes, coffee, and beer (in no particular order) .  One died underway on a boat, and they had to helovac his body to a surface vessel.  Another (the ship's Corpsman), died at 38 (while ashore) from a heart attack, after a 20-year, four-pack-a-day Marlboro habit.  Cigarettes, of course, kill a lot more smokers via heart disease than via cancer.