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The Red Mountain Challengers may think they’ve got a lock on The Ultimate Cancer Prevention Costume Challenge, but the Ya Ya Sistahs are mounting a response, and hereby present Exhibit A. Over the weekend, the Ya Yas got down to the serious business of Poker for Cancer Prevention (an annual event, but not a single Ya Ya can remember what year it started). However, they do know they raised well over $500 for the cause, and failed utterly at the poker face part of the deal. More to come next week!

This week we welcome a brand new CPC Team called The Red Tent Sisters from the fabulous Toronto-based boutique and wellness centre of the same name. They are aiming high with a goal of $5,000, and we’re behind them all the way. And among a great bunch of individual participants on board again, we welcome back Laura Bondy, our 2009 CPC Coordinator and Certified Queen of Cupcakes to The Preventers. We now have 19 teams and 52 participants and – CONGRATULATIONS! – we pushed past the $10,000 plateau and have now raised over $11,000! Let us know if you have any easy & effective fund raising ideas! Just drop me an e-mail (sdobec@rogers.com).

Click on our 2010 CPC Photo Gallery for your Monday chuckle. The photos of the Red Mountain Challengers are bright, colourful and…yep, hysterical! Clear evidence that our BC participants sure know how to do the fun part of fun-draising. (Get it?)

We hate to segue from good fun to bad food and pinkwashing (ie exploiting breast cancer for blatant commercial purposes) but Kentucky Fried Chicken, aka KFC, has launched a new fundraiser called Buckets for the Cure that really makes us gag. KFC is donating 50 cents from every pink bucket sold at 5,000 participating franchises to help the Susan B. Komen Foundation ‘spread breast cancer awareness’ – we might call this partnership something else, but this is a family e-newsletter, after all. Our best advice is don’t eat this at home – or anywhere else on our planet! Happily for us Canucks, it’s not even an option on this side of the border.

Your mother was right when she told you to “eat your vegetables” and I am here to remind us all again (We’ll say a little more next week about that widely reported European study that showed little benefit from eating fruits and veggies for cancer prevention. Meanwhile, keep eating ‘em!). As a holistic nutritionist, I’ve decided to build my 2010 Cancer Prevention Challenge around good food & eating for prevention. For the month of May – and the rest of my life! – I have laid out a healthy eating plan focused on cancer prevention on my blog and I plan to follow it. You’re welcome to join me! Food and ‘lifestyle’ changes can be hard for some people, and they take time. Adopt one or two of them and you will start yourself on the road to better health. I recommend adopting health goal #3 immediately – Eliminate Fast Food – and after reading about Buckets for the Cure, you may be way more motivated now!

…for the Ottawa Race Weekend, but it’s too late, baby now, unless you’re up to running a Full Marathon (a few spots left), or you’d rather do about 40K less in the Saturday afternoon 2K (now, that’s more like it, says the older of the two Co-Coordinators of the 2010 CPC.)

 
Happy fundraising! Same time, same place next week!
– Sarah & Liz