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Nine Ways to Reduce the Risk of Breast Cancer


Health & Wellness  (tags: prevention, women, Breast cancer, health )

Lone
- 68 days ago - naturalnews.com
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, but the media focus of this month tends to be about curing breast cancer, with little said about how to prevent breast cancer. The bad news is that we`re no closer to a cure for breast cancer than we were 50 year
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bernadetteMP P. (75)
Friday October 23, 2009, 8:40 am
good news thank you trry for rhis one
 

Daniel Barker (2)
Friday October 23, 2009, 9:39 am
How do we reduce contraceptives in females? Male contraceptive. I am in favor of, and am willing to try, contraceptives.
 

Jane Way (16)
Friday October 23, 2009, 10:42 am
I read+read+read-- My uneducated conclusion is - womens contraceptive= I.U.D- H.R.T= banned- menopause= live with it
 

Judy Cross (84)
Friday October 23, 2009, 11:33 am
They left out a really important one, iodine. So make it 10 things you can do.

Research suggests that some breast cancers may be an
iodine deficiency disease.

As iodine consumption has gone down, breast cancer rates have gone up. But
the research goes far deeper, exploring the effects of iodine supplementation on
breast disease and breast cancer. This important breakthrough has been in the
research pipeline for years but only recently found momentum. After sifting
through 50 years of iodine research and corresponding with researchers around
the world, the editors report that abnormal iodine metabolism, due either to
bromide dominance in the environment or a dietary deficiency of iodine, must be
addressed as part of a preventive and or a therapeutic strategy.

Iodine Deficiency Growing Worse

* Iodine consumption by Americans has dropped 50% since the 1970s as breast
cancer rates have risen (1). In the US Goiter Belt, where iodine in the soil is

lower, breast cancer is higher (2).


* By contrast, the incidence and severity of breast cancer are less in Japan than

in Europe and the US, attributable to the diet (3). Japanese women consume 25
times more dietary iodine than North American women and have lower breast
cancer rates (4).

* Meanwhile, since the 1970s, in the US and several other countries, iodine-
blocking bromides have been added to flour, some sodas, and medications,
exacerbating the iodine deficiency.


* Fluoridated drinking water also depletes iodine absorption. Thus, as women

consume less iodine and excrete more due to toxic elements, our risk for breast
cancer grows(5).

Iodine and Benign Breast Disease

* Blocking iodine in rats' food supply led to progressive human-like fibrocystic

disease (atypia, sclerosing, calcifications, dysplastic changes) as the rats aged
(6). Supplementing patients with fibrocystic disease with iodine helped to resolve
fibrosis and reduced breast size (7).

* For women with painful breasts accompanying fibrocystic disease, iodine

improved symptoms in more than 50% of the women who took 6.0 mg. of iodine for
6 months (8), and brown sea alga improved pain and nodularity in 94% of the
women (9). From the editors' observations of the Iodine Investigation Project
participants, depending on the kind of iodine agent used, painful breast
symptoms have resolved in from 24 hours to two months.

* Since benign breast disease increases the risk of breast cancer (10), and iodine
improves fibrocystic disease, we at Breast Cancer Choices propose studies to
see if iodine supplementation decreases the risk of getting breast cancer and
the risk of recurrence.

continues at
http://www.breastcancerchoices.org/iodine.html
 

Glenda Jasper (143)
Friday October 23, 2009, 12:49 pm
It's been an understudy for many years now that we do have a lot more resources than they let us know about especially in other countries, but the rate of cancer victims climb in the good ole USA due to greedy politicians and if they were to allow cancer causes to be founded here would mean one thing no more big monies in Pharmaceutical revenue go figure?
 

mary f. (78)
Friday October 23, 2009, 4:24 pm
thanks for posting this terry
 

Koo J. (97)
Friday October 23, 2009, 4:56 pm
Think humans should stop dumping chemicals into the water, air and soil. Every year billions of tons of household and industrial chemcials, antibiotics, pharmaceuticals, insecticides, skin-care, hair- and tooth-care products, perfumes, hormones, and other pollutants end up in the air, water and soil, some washed down the drain. All the stuff goes somewhere, some of it can't be removed from the water supply, in minute particles.
 

Shirley S. (35)
Friday October 23, 2009, 7:19 pm
I go along with the IODINE research idea because two of my sisters developed breast cancer.I was advised by my GP when I was a teenager to start using iodized salt which I did & to date I have escaped the problem.
 

Sheila G. (254)
Sunday October 25, 2009, 7:14 pm
TY T!! this is not getting around enough, had no idea that my fibrocystic disease was pre cancerous, no doc has ever told me that, and that is unforgivable. good friend is losing her Sis to breast cancer, she was begging for them to scan every 2 or 3 months and now it is back and she will die.
heard about that iodine treatment too, Judy, someone did an item on it lately but I can't find it. many friends
ty again for this Terry, much appreciated.
 

Sheila G. (254)
Sunday October 25, 2009, 7:14 pm
one more thing, lets not forget that eating animal products is highly linked to so many cancers, something to think about, get healthy, friends
xo
 
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