{"id":6341,"date":"2011-05-04T14:08:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=6341"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:32:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:32:34","slug":"news-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/05\/04\/news-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"News and Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi dear readers (all 5 of you who are left). I know I hardly post here anymore. But today I have good news to share. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2011\/03\/07\/upcoming\/\">saga of the breast cancer question<\/a> has been answered. I had the genetic test done for BRCA 1 and 2 (thanks to insurance paying), and the result is I have neither mutation! This is a relief. The oncologist still thinks I should consider taking Tamoxifen because of the family history and atypical hyperplasia I have. I&#8217;m not so sure, given the potential life-ending side effects. So for now I am cancer-free and I have options for trying to remain so.<\/p>\n<p>There are other, less toxic avenues I started down. One is to consume <a href=\"http:\/\/greensmoothiesblog.com\/\">green smoothies<\/a>. I&#8217;ve not done much research for scientific findings of the health benefits of green smoothies (particularly regarding cancer prevention), but from so many books I&#8217;ve read (Michael Pollan, Mark Bitman, etc.), an increase in consumption of these foods can only promote health. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have the high-tech blender suggested for this (they are pricey at $400, though I&#8217;m told worth it). If I stay the course, maybe I&#8217;ll get one. Depends on how many blenders I burn out. The cool thing is that so far the smoothies I make taste good. I&#8217;m told some of the greens I might end up using make for a less sweet concoction. But thus far this is the recipe I&#8217;m using: two generous handfuls of spinach; 1 small banana; 1 pear; 1 cup grapes. (Or I could go with more pears, no grapes, etc.). About a tablespoon of grade B maple syrup, and 1.5 cups of water. I blend the hell out of it for two minutes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5688434138\/\" title=\"DSC01742 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5182\/5688434138_3c576246fe.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"368\" alt=\"DSC01742\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Voila! A truly tasty beverage (even comes in my favorite color!).<\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/5688434974\/\" title=\"DSC01747 by Mindful One, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5103\/5688434974_9c3b67319b_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"238\" alt=\"DSC01747\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi dear readers (all 5 of you who are left). I know I hardly post here anymore. But today I have good news to share. The saga of the breast cancer question has been answered. I had the genetic test done for BRCA 1 and 2 (thanks to insurance paying), and the result is I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-nature","category-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6341"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11855,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6341\/revisions\/11855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}