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Help Prevent Cancer 10 Ways
By the Care2 staff.
With cancer rates rising alarmingly, it is good to know that keys to the prevention of many cancers are in our own hands. Find out ten ways to take charge of your health and help to prevent cancer, starting today.
* Limit your exposure to toxic chemicals wherever possible, starting at home. Current research suggests that common chemicals are linked to breast cancer. You can minimize your risk by switching to all-natural cleaning and personal care products today. Care2’s Green Living pages are filled with thousands of inexpensive and effective formulas to use instead.
* Get 10 minutes of unprotected sunlight every day. Evidently, Vitamin D plays an important role in cancer prevention and many of us are woefully deficient. Read more about the role of vitamin D in cancer prevention.
* Stop smoking and avoid second-hand smoke.
* Keep your consumption of alcoholic beverages down to 2 drinks a day if you’re a man, 1 if you’re a woman.
* Exercise. Even as little as a 10-minute walk every day will benefit your health.
* Manage your stress, relax, and practice self-love. Simple meditations, yoga, or a daily walk can all help keep stress levels low, and allowing yourself to be simply and gloriously human will help, too. For ideas, see Care2’s Spirituality pages.
* Eat colorfully. Bright colors in fruits and vegetables signals the presence of health-promoting phytochemicals with anti-inflammatory properties. See The Seven Food Colors of Health. And check out this list of healing herbs and spices you can add to your food. And be sure to get lots of fiber, from whole grains and beans as well as those great fruits and veggies.
* Eat organically if at all possible. Here is a list of the ten most important foods to eat organically.
* Drink tea. Some studies suggest that even one cup of black or green tea per day reduces risks of certain cancers.
* Avoid foods processed with sodium nitrate and nitrite, foods that have been grilled for long periods of time, and salt-cured foods.
* Know your fats. Avoid foods high in trans fats or polyunsaturated fats and choose healthy fats instead, like nut butters, avocados, and olive oil.
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add your comment »I have two comments:
1. Something to avoid that is extremely related to cancer is cosmetics and personal care and household cleaning products with chemicals. There is a huge connection between cancer and those items. A couple of recommendations I have: make your own chemical free cleaning products. Buy make up and personal care products (if you use it) at your local health food store or at holisticbeauty.net. Also, read the book "Not Just a Pretty Face".
2. Someone left a comment below saying that there is a link to animal products and cancer. What they do not mention is that there is a link to animal products where animals were given hormones and raised eating essentially garbage and pesticides to cancer. Organic, locally raised, hormone-free meat is GOOD for you. In fact, our bodies need the cholesterol in that kind of meat. Factory farmed meat (which is most supermarket and restaurant meat) is really terrible stuff. Get your meat from the farmer's market, or your local co-op or Whole Foods. Check out information about Paul Chek, Joseph Mercola, Weston A. Price, or the cookbook "Nourishing Traditions". We actually need the fats and proteins and Omega 6's and 3's in sustainably raised meats and fishes to help prevent cancer. I'm just sorry that so much of the American public believes otherwise.
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My dad passed away in 2000 from pancreatic cancer. These tips are great.
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Thanks for the tips
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I agree, Amanda... Animal products are deadly, not only to animals either.
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good ideas, im going to follow them all!!!
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Thank you, loved that tip about the sun light exposure, people dont sit under the sun and enjoy its beams anymore, and if they -god forbid -ever did, they just never forget to get soaked in sun screen first!!!
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Thanks !!!
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Second-hand smoke is deadly. I developed renal cancer in my forties, I had never smoked, didn't drink, exercised and watched my diet. The surgeon was convinced that it was from years of exposure to my parents' second-hand smoke, although I had not lived with them for many years.
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I find it silly that this article makes no mention of the consumption of animal products. It has been pretty definitively and strongly linked to cancer. In case anyone is interested and open-minded.... here's a starting point: http://www.cancerproject.org/protective_foods/facts/foods_prevention.php
There are a lot of other websites, studies, and books you should look into, though.
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Great tips and comments, thanks to all...cancer is like wildfire in my family as well Bryon. Another thought is always always take control of your health care. you know your body better then anyone, if something doesn't
feel right'. have it checked out. Expand your knowledge about cancer or any other disease and ask your dr. to take the time to talk to you ... listen to you and answer you in lay terms that you understand! And you can always get a 2nd opinion, I am glad I did....at 24 one dr. had me set for surgery, I was terrified but I got a second opinion and I didn't need surgery at all. Glad I listened to that 'inner voice' that nagged me until I got another opinion.
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