#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?
At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Try the “Bolthouse” salad dressings in the refrigerated section near the produce in your local grocery store! My favorite is the Italian. Which is Yours?
Happy Valentine’s Day to Your Health (yellow tomatoes, radishes, brussels sprouts and portobello mushrooms)! And yes, I actually ate the contents, better for you than dark chocolate any day!
Absolutely not! It’s an animal protein, making it low nutrition and low fiber per bite compared to a fruit or vegetable, and it’s a caloric bomb too; most people are overweight already. As far as the healthy Omega 3 oils the media is always raving about? Skip the fish and eat green things! Where do you think Omega 3 oils come from? They come from small fish that eat plankton and algae (green things) and then bigger fish eat the smaller fish that ate the green things, accumulating the Omega 3 oils in their tissues. In other words, green plants and leaves are the origin of Omega 3 oils! Skip all fish and eat plants instead! By the way, fish is a polluted dirty mess due to its living environment (pesticides, growth hormones, antibiotics, mercury, PCB’s, etc.).
This line of thought is tired and flat out wrong! I don’t cheat on my wife in moderation and I don’t stab myself with a pocket knife in moderation either. A bit extreme? Not really. Poor choices are simply poor choices in any amount. Tighten it up!
If you think there’s always a study to contradict the next study, you would be right. If you think there’s always a well performed and respected study to contradict the next well performed and respected study, you would be wrong. It’s not nearly as common. The media will report on any study, regardless of its merit, confusing the public on personal health issues. My suggestion, don’t listen to the media when it comes to your health information.
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Well, according to our media and those who parrot whatever they hear from others, it’s a magical and healthy substance, great for salads and cooking. In reality, it’s a processed vegetable oil that’s nothing but a calorie bomb! Avoid, as you would all vegetable oils!
Vegetables are by far the most nutritious category of food in which to select our calories, but GREEN vegetables are far and away the captains of nutrition on a team full of All-Stars!
The reason we are over-weight, unhealthy and full of medications is because of what we eat! High calorie, processed, LOW nutrient food, coupled with animal products that only serve to provide more protein to a diet already saturated with too much protein! Malnourished while awash in too many calories, imagine that. The MICROnutrients that keep us healthy are missing from our diet! Stop eating so much animal and supplemental protein! You will not lose weight and you will get sicker!Come see me, I will get you headed in the right direction.
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Being overweight or continually gaining weight is not caused by how much we eat, rather by what we eat! Olive Oil and Salmon for instance are calorie bombs and neither are good for you! Quit listening to the media. Learn how to eat for weightless and health here!
