Ever notice how fruit in produce aisle is so much larger than ever before? Yet, taste leaves much to be desired. A tomato grown in a greenhouse will never compare to a tomato grown in a backyard.

It is not nearly as difficult to find stores carrying organic and steroid-free foods as it was even just 20 years ago. Organic products are becoming more mainstream than ever before and are not reserved for only for health food stores any longer. Several large grocery chains now carry complete lines of organic products as a result of demand from consumers.

It is just common sense. When you mess with nature, outcome cannot possibly be good.  This is all more reason to choose organically grown fruits and vegetables and drug-free meats.

In our next series, we’ll show you how to change your grocery shopping habits over from traditional to organic without breaking your bank account.

To Your Health,

Patty Gale

Patty Gale is a successful entrepreneur who specializes in personalization and customer care for all her clients.  She exchanged her suits, hose and heels for working at home in her "jammies" and is on a mission to empower other women to do the same.

Diagnosis The findings that denote a cancer are single, non-tender and firm to hard mass with ill-defined margins. This can be later confirmed by mammography and biopsy. After cancer has been diagnosed staging is done to find out best treatment option as well as prognosis.

Management The management of breast cancer rests basically on two things. The first is treatment and second is counseling. The treatment can further be divided into three: medical, radiation, and surgery. The medical treatment consists of drugs such as tamoxifen, which is an anti estrogen, aromatase inhibitors such as aminoglutethimide and monoclonal antibodies such as trastuzumab. But similar to other drugs they have their own side effects profile. The side effects associated with tamoxifen are increased vaginal bleeding, endometrial cancer and cataracts. The aromatase inhibitors have side effects of leg cramps, jaundice and weight gain while monoclonal antibodies may cause sterility or certain birth abnormalities. Generally radiation and surgery are modalities, which are needed for treatment to ward off body of cancerous growth.

Counseling This is one of most important parts of treatment both before and after surgery. The patients are to be taught that this is only another disease, which has treatment available, and persons can lead a normal life after that.

Latest research Latest research is being done on both surgery and medicine. For surgery, surgeons are trying to find out best way of surgery so that post surgery patients have minimal disabilities. Similar medicines with lesser side effects are being researched.