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BETTER CHOICES REDUCE RISK OF CANCER
“It’s a cancer lottery,” says DebiLyn Smith, author of Running From Cancer: a tilted memoir. “The
more bad choices you make the more tickets you give yourself. The more tickets,
the greater the possibility cancer will tap you on the shoulder and say ‘next’.”
A Northern BC breast cancer survivor for four years now,
Smith wrote about her experience as a “ chocolate gorging, wine swilling, exercise wanker” that lost half a breast
before experiencing baldness in the “chemo fast-lane”and sticking her tongue out at the large rotating radiating laser head
as it passed across her flesh. “I took one for the team so that you don’t have
to,” she says. I wrote this book to hit you over the head, with humour and
inspiration, but to show you why you want to do EVERYTHING you can to avoid
going down this road. Having cancer will change your life. If you are supplying your body with the ammunition it needs
to fight back when a cancer cell sparks up, then you have a greater chance of
never having to sit across from your doctor and hear those life-changing words, 'you have cancer'.”
According to the Canadian Cancer Society, almost 50 % of
cancers can be prevented. (http://www.cancer.ca/en/about-us/for-media/media-releases/national/2014/world-cancer-day-2014/?region=bc)
Smith says, “If you are supplying your body with the ammunition it needs to
fight back when a cancer cell turns rogue, then you have a greater chance of
never having to sit across from your doctor and hear those life-changing words,
‘you have cancer.’”
“I’m one of the people that closed my eyes and
hoped to outrun cancer but cancer ran right over me and flattened me like road
kill. I got mad that I went through the ordeal and now want to help others
avoid that same fate. It’s time to wake up out there.”
Smith’s book includes tips,
recipes and a love story. Her website at www.debilynsmith.com offers more information on cancer prevention and
healthy recipes.
Smith will be in Prince
George at Ave Maria on 20th Ave this Friday from 11-5, at Coles Book
Store Pine Center Mall from 11-4:30 on Saturday and at the CIBC Run For the
Cure on stage at 10 on Sunday. Proceeds from DebiLyn’s book sales are shared
with her BV Health Care and Hospital Foundation and the many cancer fundraisers
that she attends.
For contact, please use contact@debilynsmith.com
Website www.debilynsmith.com
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