Do you like smoked fish?
Lots of salt on your food?
Any type of meat or fish jerky?
Pickles of any types?
Do you forget to eat vegetables for weeks at a time?
Does the only "fresh fruit" you eat come in the form of orange juice?
Then you have my diet ...and you are a prime candidate for stomach cancer.
We just learned that the reason that rates of stomach cancer are so much higher in Japan, Finland and Iceland is due to their high diet of nitrites and amines from eating smoked and preserved food. Stomach cancer is hard to detect early, so it usually presents at a point where treatment is not possible. (Japan has very aggressive endoscopic screening regiments for all its citizens for this very reason.)
Anyway, this is shocking and heartbreaking news. I though I could live off of smoked salmon and capers for the rest of my life.
I started this to keep up with friends and family while in medical school. Now it's just a place where I procrastinate, whine and waste way too much cosmic energy on what should have just been a passing thought in my head.
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I started this to keep up with friends and family while in medical school. Now it's just a place where I procrastinate, whine and waste way too much cosmic energy on what should have just been a passing thought in my head. ********************************* A DISCLAIMER (some useful language stolen from lonecoyote11 - thanks, friend!): I have been HIPAA trained and respect the privacy of my patients. The patient stories you read here have been changed to protect all identities. Sometimes I'll publish a story months after I've seen someone; sometimes I'll combine several patients into one. Always, I'll change identifying characteristics, such as age, gender, profession, specific illness, etc. I do not make stories up and I do my damnest to preserve the heart of my patient's experiences without revealing their identities. If someone mentioned here sounds like your grandma, you can ponder the singleness of the human experience, but no, it's not her.
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1 comment:
LOL, isn't it ironic that going to medical school to learn how to help people be healthy forces us to adopt some of the unhealthiest lifestyles possible? I can't remember the last time I ate vegetables two days in a row that did not involve iceberg lettuce on some sort of high-salt prepared food option.
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