by Tessa Garcia

Created on: August 26, 2008

My cousin died about four years at age 34. He was at the peak of his career as a nurse, with a loving wife and wonderful kids. He died of cancer to the kidney that metasthesize to the liver (or vice versa). I was shattered since my aunt (my cousin's mother) died at age 70 a year before of the same illness. Why did they die of the same illness? Does it run in the family? What common factors do we have that considers my daughters and I to be a candidate for the same type of illness? I tried to analyze the common factor we have was we had our gal bladder removed (due to gal stones). However, my grandmother died at age 90 who was likewise had her gal bladder removed. Years have gone by and the death of my aunt and my cousin still crosses my mind on how I can get an answer.

I am a health buff since I've been sickly since I was a child. Last year I became what I consider for myself overweight. When I had my routine blood work done I learned that my cholesterol went-up. It is minimal but I'm not happy with the result. Likewise, I learned that my blood pressure was a little bit high. I told myself I can't handle the weight and I should do something about it.

I started to go back eating oatmeal every morning (to lower my cholesterol). I noticed I'm still not loosing weight so I decided to cut my calories by eating half of the oatmeal I normally consume. After two hours I eat one hard boiled organic egg. In the afternoon I snack by preparing a strawberry smoothie with milk and yogurt. I lost some weight, however, my weight plateau. I told myself I need to loose more weight so I decided to eat salmon with romaine and spinach salad for my lunch. It did worked and I lost another five pounds. I'm not yet on my targeted weight but I told myself I'm getting there. I'm happy but I noticed experiencing hyperacidity. Hyperacidity refers to the excessive acidity of the stomach that causes a burning pain after meals.

About three or four weeks ago a friend talked to me about "eating according to your blood type". She told me that a co-worker who told her about it. The doctor recommended her co-worker to eat according to her blood type since she has gone obese. I told myself it makes sense that you have to eat according to your blood type since blood runs continuously to our body and anything the blood delivers to your major organs that is not appropriate to your body it will be rejected or it will become toxin. The toxins accumulated inside the body can result to several types of

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