Caitlin is the sister of Inglewood Organic’s Managing Director, Katrina Hobbs. Emily Hobbs is the daughter of Katrina and Inglewood Farm’s Director Adrian Hobbs and our communication, marketing and digital media officer. In the video here, Emily and Caitlin prepare dinner for Caitlin’s family of seven while chatting about how when cancer strikes, the importance of good food is highlighted.
Since 2017 Caitlin has been on a tough health journey. She had major surgery and while in ICU recovering, routine post operative imaging showed up a rare and aggressive thymic carcinoma and subsequent testing revealed metastasis to the lung. Caitlin and her husband Alex have five children, at the time of diagnosis their kids were 11, 8 and 6, 6 and 6 – yes, your read correctly the 3 youngest children are the same age, triplets! You can read blogs and watch vlogs from Cailtin’s Happy Heart about the journey before
While quality food and finding the moments in life that make the heart happy have always been important to Caitlin and a big part of her years authoring Cailtin’s Happy Heart (I mean, you get a clue from the title of the blog page, don’t you?), there is nothing like a cancer diagnosis (or any serious health issue, actually) to really highlight the importance of good food and a positive mentality.
During the 7 years since the cancer diagnosis, Caitlin has been on a massive health journey with so many ups and downs including four rounds of chemotherapy and lots of radiation and immunotherapy. Throughout that journey, value added foods that are still whole and fresh have often proven such a great source of nourishment for her large family. It’s good to remember that wholesome food does not have to be complicated but sometimes, when Mum is unwell every step that doesn’t have to be done at home can be a godsend.
In this video, Caitlin and Emily cook with our Inglewood Organic chicken strips, ready to just tip in and cook, it might not seem like much to have the cutting done but many busy or unwell family chefs can tell you; the little helpful things make a difference! The same goes for attitudes and mentalities, when faced with the weight of mortality and a terminal diagnosis, Caitlin during her ‘Cancer Chronical’ era has not strayed from her ‘Happy Heart roots.’ We have more reason to talk about certified organic food here, but it is food for thought that for nutritious meals to really do good, they’re best inside a body driven by a brain that stays optimistic!
‘Let thy food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’, is often ascribed to Hippocrates (400 BC) and although some within the historic and scientific communities might express frustration at the misquotation insinuating that the relationship between food and health was better understood earlier than it actually was, we can certainly appreciate the sentiment from a modern view point and although we like to leave a bunch of antiquated practices and beliefs about health behind, at Inglewood Organic, we certainly believe in returning to the good old fashioned wholesome, organic produce that really can be a type of “medicine” to our bodies. As in Caitlin’s case, the ‘treatment’ of good food can also be vital in helping the body to cope with medicine that is so hard to cope with.
We know that chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy and any number of necessary evils really are hard on our bodies, so everything and anything we can do to support good health around those unfortunate and sometimes necessary experiences is so important. It might not always be quantifiable but your body feels the organic difference.
The beauty of food as medicine is that the choice to heal and promote health can begin as soon as the next meal, and that’s why we love to provide you with the beautiful certified organic lean protein that is Inglewood Organic Chicken. We’d love to hear how you use our products to help and heal your body and nourish your family!
Full vlog at @caitlinscancerchronicles6545 YouTube Channel.
