Soy---for Klaus

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Hi....this is in response to Klaus' dilemma....why some people live long,

healthy lives though exposed to poor diets and environment, etc.... My take on

this is that life's a crap shoot. I had a great

Aunt who lived to be 95, and drank coffee every day, though she had no other

vices, and lived alone the last 8 years or so of her life in a big, old house,

until she was shuffled off to a nursing home,

for no good reason, save that my parents were ignorant of how to care for an

older person. This was precipitated by one morning when she suffered heat

prostration because of 3 days straight of 100

degree temps. in a house with NO air-conditioning, and I daresay, I don't

remember any fans, either. She was taken to the hospital where the doctors

pronounced her in good health, with a good heart

(both literally and figuratively), and she was sent home. She also was stressed

and cried a lot because her 2 sisters and 5 brothers were all dead, and all she

had left was a nephew (my father). But,

after she had her crying spell, she would re-group and smile and stay busy. She

worked very, very hard her whole life......one of her brothers lived with her

until the last 8 years....he was a

horticulturist.....he grew flowers in 2 huge greenhouses on the property and

sold them to the florist trade, and he also grew huge, huge, tomatoes (1 lb.

each), in a garden. Aunt Florence cared for him

at home when he developed dementia (now I guess we would call it Alzheimers, but

I'm not sure). She was with him, diapered him, etc., until the bitter end. She

had worked as a nanny and nurse (never

had a degree, but was well-versed in care.....in the early-mid 1900s, many women

did this, nursing people in their own homes). She would have lived to be 100,

I'm sure, were it not for the fact that my

father stuck her in a nursing home, making matters 10 times worse for her

well-being. She fell there and broke a hip, had all her humanity stripped away,

and eventually they killed her. Her mind was

very good for someone of her age.....in fact, the very last words she spoke to

my sister and me, when we visited her at the nursing home, were, " Well.....enjoy

yourselves. " I'll never forget it. Words

to live by. Here it is about 18 years after she spoke those words, and I still

miss my dear, old, sweet, feisty Aunt Florence (real name Flora, very

old-fashioned, but that's what everyone called

her). Sorry to digress.....it still hurts. She never had children, and was

married twice, very briefly. I remember how she cried when I sent her a dozen

red roses on her 90th birthday.....she said no

one had ever sent her roses. I figured better then than at a funeral. The

moral of my little tale is to love everyone, especially your families, and THAT

ALONE will increase their life span. And take

a page from Aunt Florence's book.....LET your emotions OUT, stay busy, work

hard, " enjoy yourselves " , stay positive, and you too, may live to be 95.

Now, I have one other thing to say re soy. Did you know that kudzu has

many, many more times the genistein of soy? I take it every day as a tyrosine

kinase inhibitor to kill my leukemia cells.

And I pray and say religious health affirmations every night.

Ellen

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