I wrote this article to remind you, your friends, young adults with cancer, survivors, my friends, my family and everyone out there beating cancer that healthy eating can be easy + reasonable.
Also, food can become one of your medicines, so eat up and eat well!
Read the article here.
I also wrote the article as a tribute to Sam, as a thank you for being such a positive example and role model. When I was in 11th grade, Samantha, my sister’s best childhood friend, was diagnosed with Ewing’s Sarcoma – a rare form of bone cancer.
My sister and Samantha were the same age, 21 and had one semester left of college. They were getting excited to graduate, setting up post-college interviews, but Samantha had to turn around and head to Sloane Kettering, undergo rounds and rounds of chemo and surgery and hold off from finishing her last semester.
I remember being really nervous to visit her (she was one of the first young patients with cancer that i had known) and she was so positive and upbeat, you would’ve never known what she was going through.
She ended up beating that cancer and then fast forward two years, she was diagnosed with another form of cancer.
Now, fast forward to today- she is a two-time young adult cancer survivor (you go girl!!), went back to college to get her diploma, still positive as ever, still cute as ever AND a mother of TWO little cuties with the cutest husband. WOW.
Not only that, in 2003 she co-founded The Sam Fund, to provide
young adult cancer survivors with programs, services and scholarships after treatment. Quadruple WOW.
Read the article here.
Then go drink some water (with lemon) and eat your greens!
xox
be well,
arielle
