When you were diagnosed, did you start eating organic vegetables, exercising

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5. When I could eat

I was unabashedly going for prime rib, burgers, whatever. Granted, I couldn't always eat under chemo. I did gradually move to "better foods" (less carbs) but I'm an omnivore, heavy on the carnivore side, and aren't giving that up. That said, one side effect of my surgery was a colostomy, and as a result of that I find I have to skip certain foods (spicy foods, or foods with seeds), but otherwise I didn't dive headfirst into the healthy eating stuff.

I would like to comment that I think I'm one of the first generation with this cancer problem - colon cancer. I know it's been around a long time, but when my mother was growing up (WWII era) they ate relatively naturally, had a garden, etc. Probably had some horrible canned food too, but I don't know about that.

My generation (I was born end of baby boom, early 60s) was probably the first heavily raised on artificial crap, everything from Count Chocula to Fruity Pebbles to god knows what was in TV dinners, etc. Snacks, candy, etc. - all heavy in artificial crap.

I can't prove it, but I think that is a big factor in the increasing prevalence of colon cancer in people of my age.

Now I avoid as much artificial crap as I can, and I like it better.