> - Many cancers, including breast cancer, may be dependent on physical >activity and level of stress. Nicole Burger's marriage was, to say the >least, very unhappy. i was under the impression (from meeting her in 95) that she got cancer while younger and got into remission for years. Any way, considering her unhappiness in her relationship with her husband the nutrition factor seems to me to not be an important factor in her case. She was talking to us about the grief of loosing one of her children and it looks to us that there was a lot of hurt there . Thoughts and emotional patterns have certainly as much, if not more influences, on body chemistry than the kind of molecules we are ingesting. from my experience with a friend affected by breast cancer , i can see a similarity in their attitudes toward life(lot of denied and aknowledged hurt and a dose of resignation) cells to become cancerous need to be in an oxygen impoverished environment. And somebody who is willing to feel the pain automatically sighs ( my observation ) repressing feeling go with shallow breathing... I don't deny the importance of nutrition in cancer genesis but there too, food choices are determined by attitudes . Nicole might have choose meat as a mean to hurt herself, as an other person with a different body chemistry will have choose fruit or something else. I would like to stress that the nature of the food affect us less than our relationship to it. even a bag of feather can be as hurtfull than a bag of lead who fall on your head , if you deep your nose into it. Jean-claude