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Diane Weisman: The Inspiring Foot Behind “Kick Cancer in the Can”

434996241_640 Today on the blog, actress and Hollywood “dresser to the stars” Diane Weisman shares the personal story behind her battle with breast cancer and Kick Cancer in the Can With Diane, a web series that she started with her videographer husband to provide information and inspiration to others battling the disease. 

Next Monday, she’s hosting a comedy and magic fundraiser featuring George Wendt, Ritch Shydner, Eric Buss, Steve Mittleman, David Zasloff and Porsche Thomas. This evening is designed to help raise funds for post-production of Season One’s episodes.

Diane’s story is an inspirational account of a survivor that refuses to let a little thing like cancer keep her down and we are more than honored to be working with Diane on this very special event. If you’re in Los Angeles next Monday, we HIGHLY recommend that you embrace this incredible opportunity.

Here’s Diane to tell her story:

My mother and her twin sister passed away from breast cancer at the ages of 54 and 53. So I was quite familiar with breast cancer.

Then the scariest words I have ever heard were told to me: “You have breast cancer.” It was August 2010. I was at the age my mom was at when she died too. Was I to have the same fate as my mom and her twin sister?

I decided to educate myself and asked that I be “divinely protected and directed” as I go through this journey. I opened myself up to all types of Eastern medicine—Qi Gong, reflexology, Reiki, acupuncture, yoga, meditation—and Western: chemo, radiation, etc.

I also looked at nutrition: plant-based diet, I dropped meat from my diet and occasionally eat wild caught fish. I took out alcohol, dairy, eggs, white processed flour and sugar. I introduced myself to quinoa, burdock, daikon, macrobiotic diet and other foreign foods. I put in an alkaline water filtration system. My diet was alkaline based. I found out that tumors survive on sugar and an acidic diet. I was not going to give my two little tumors in my right breast any free meals!
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