OlderGwyneth Paltrows Talks Father’s Throat Cancer
Gwyneth Paltrow opens up about her father’s throat cancer in the latest Goop newsletter.
She begins, “In 1998, I was filming The Talented Mr. Ripley in Ischia, a little island off the coast of Naples in Italy. I got a call that changed my life. My father had been diagnosed with throat cancer, and it was stage four. Although he underwent treatment and survived for another four years, I watched his health deteriorate slowly until his death in 2002. During this time I began to read about Eastern medicine and the body’s capacity to heal itself. I tried to get my father on board — with mixed results. He loved acupuncture but hated macrobiotic food, which he likened to ‘biting into The New York Times.’”
Gwyn recommends: “Sleep eight hours or more each night. Do what you have to do to get to sleep; there are plenty of natural agents that work. Try them: herbs (valerian), tea (chamomile), amino acids (tryptophan or hydroxy-tryptophan) and vitamins (magnesium and B6). These can be powerful sedatives and work just as well as prescription agents without the risks. Sleep plays a powerful role in determining your appetite, energy and attitude. Sleep better for two weeks before changing your diet. Then try eliminating “white” foods, those that are made with sugar, white flour and milk. If you eliminate them one at a time, start with flour, then eliminate dairy and then sugar.”
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#24: This is not a fan site. Everyone’s entitled to their opinion, favorable or unfavorable.
I’m inspired. I plan to have a sundae and poop a nice big Goop!
I signed up for her newsletter but never received it. Oh well, I guess I’m not missing much…
Gwynnie doesn’t like me. :-(
Was her daddy a smoker? Probably.
People in the East have a very high rate of stomach cancer.
Gwen is full of shiit.
#20 What is stage 4 cancer?
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Stage 4 is when the cancer has metastized or left it’s original location and spread to distant lymph nodes and/or other organs.
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It’s sad that her father passed away and it’s nice how Gwyneth is providing people tips on how to live a healthy life. All of you people who are writing negative things about Gwyneth should bash Angelina Jolie! Now that’s a person I can’t stand!!!!
We all eventually die. She needs to stop acting so high and mighty. living 4 years after being diagnosed with cancer is pretty good. the fact that he didn’t do a macro diet may or may not have prolonged his life. She needs to get over herself. She too will most likely die of disease since that is the statistic for all of us.
What is wrong with dairy? My grand-grandmother ate dairy all her life and she died at age of 96 only because she unfortunately broke her hip and was deprived of free movement.
I agree curious. My dad’s parents ate butter, milk, and white bread every day and they both lived to age 98 and 99.
I think the diet comment on that article are from a someone else. After her comments it is signed Gweneth and then some Doctors info follows the other part of the article. Gweneth only speaks of her fathers illness.
Note at the bottom: Christian Renna, D.O. LifeSpan Medicine, 2008
Dr. Christian Renna is a nationally recognized expert in the field of contemporary preventive medicine and the founder of LifeSpan Medicine clinics.
Those aren’t her comments. In the article she speaks of her father and then the rest is attributed to some doctor. Affter Gweneths part it is signed Gweneth.
Angelina would be too busy with life, family, partner brad Pitt, world issues to blog about things like this for attention, shes a doer not a talker, Angie is beautiful inside and out, intelligent, caring, those who dislike her are indeed jealous of her. yeah! i said it, so what.
Attitudes like this annoy me. Yes, it’s all well and good to try to eat healthily, but were there any scientific proof that vitamins and raw veg cure cancer would it not have come out by now? As a cancer survivor this irks me, the fact that her father died had nothing to do with him not fully embracing macrobiotics and she is an idiot if she thinks any different. It’s just typical of this celebrity mentality of “I can control everything and life will always be perfect if I do yoga and mainline vitamins”. It’s b.s. and I would’ve thought losing a loved one might’ve snapped her out of such pretentious, ill informed thinking.
#38, is that why she let her husband photograph her breastfeeding?
My labrador recovered from acute myeloid leukemia with the help of holistic medicine so I believe there is some truth in what she says. Thank you Gwyneth for the precious advices
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