| There is so much awful news and information out | | | | organically grown food, filtering our water, building |
| there about breast cancer. These days it seems that | | | | powerful immunity, living wisely and vigorously, being in |
| every magazine, newspaper, radio show, and piece of | | | | touch with our breasts, using natural remedies for |
| mail has a headline declaring that every woman's risk | | | | menopausal problems.Try out the following tips:- |
| of developing breast cancer is increasing. There is a | | | | Aerobic exercise 3-4 times a week |
| numbing feeling of inevitability in all this information we | | | | - Maintaining a positive mental attitude |
| hear and read that more and more women tend to | | | | - Breathwork and deepening body-awareness |
| think about breast cancer as a 'when' rather than an | | | | - Expressing your feelings to keep your energy |
| if.There is so much frightening information about the | | | | flowing |
| disease out there. The stats available are horrible and | | | | - Eating healthy foods and taking the "right" |
| this bring one major question to mind; 'what can be | | | | supplements |
| done to prevent breast cancer?' The bulk of medical | | | | - Avoiding toxicityTry as much as you can to avoid |
| advancement in the area of breast and indeed most | | | | the following and you will be as far from breast cancer |
| cancers, involves what should be done after, and not | | | | as you humanly can:Any medication containing |
| essentially before, getting the disease. There is more | | | | acetaminophenProducts such as Tylenol, Sudafid, |
| to preventing breast cancer than the ritual yearly | | | | Bromo seltzer, vicodin, and many others which drive |
| mammogram. Of course this may help detect the | | | | down the glutathione levels in the body. Glutathione is |
| breast cancer at its early stage, but that is about the | | | | an essential antioxidant and detoxifier.Aspartame (not |
| best it can do. It won't prevent you from getting the | | | | to be confused with aspertate) has been proven to |
| disease. To prevent breast cancer, we need to be | | | | cause cancer in rats. It is a common ingredient in many |
| more proactive, we need to take individual and | | | | no-sugar products such as yogurt, ice cream, desserts |
| collective action.The first step towards proactively | | | | and carbonated beverages. Splenda is also |
| preventing breast cancer is to understand the causes | | | | harmful.Toxins. Use toxin-free, organic products. Wash |
| and risk factors of breast cancer and what decreases | | | | all fruits and vegetables thoroughly with soapy water |
| breast cancer risk. However, there are few conclusive | | | | to remove chemical residues. Better yet, buy only |
| answers to these queries, partly because most | | | | organic products and non-GMO (non-genetically |
| research focuses on eliminating breast cancer after - | | | | modified) foods. Read labels (veggies and fruit will |
| not before - it occurs. Medical research has validated | | | | have an 9 to indicate organic and an 8 for |
| so few risk factors for breast cancer that almost 70 | | | | non-GMO).Active computer screens should be at least |
| percent of the women diagnosed with breast cancer | | | | 18 inches away from your body. You need to be at |
| are not associated with any clear cut risk factor.To | | | | least 36 inches from your active television screens.It is |
| make matters worse, our sex, age, reproductive | | | | obvious that several factors that are known to |
| history, family history, exposure to radiation (such as | | | | predispose someone to breast cancer are not |
| fallout from above-ground atomic bomb tests), race, | | | | completely within our control. It makes more sense |
| culture, and height are factors beyond our control. | | | | therefore, to be very keen about your breast. This |
| When we're told that these factors play crucial roles in | | | | serves a dual function. Even when it does not |
| the cause of breast cancer, we can be left with | | | | completely protect you from cancer, it allows for early |
| feelings of hopelessness and panic. For instance, being | | | | detection of the cancer when it does occur. No one |
| a black woman or being from a family with history of | | | | knows your body as well as you do. That's why it's |
| breast cancer, puts you in the forefront of those at | | | | essential to examine your breasts at the same time |
| risk of breast cancer. These are things we don't | | | | every month - so you can detect any changes that |
| decide for ourselves.When we include risk factors that | | | | might occur. When you do the self-examination, you |
| are considered "not well substantiated", but which are | | | | are reassuring yourself that your body is still in great |
| clearly contributing to breast cancer incidence, including | | | | conditionBreast Self Exams still remain the number one |
| ingestion of and exposure to prescription hormones, | | | | method for detecting changes in breast health. |
| hormone-mimicking organochlorines, prescription drugs, | | | | Although, finding any symptoms does not really mean |
| petrochemicals, and electromagnetic fields, as well as | | | | you have cancer but when you have it, early detection |
| unwise lifestyle choices such as smoking tobacco, | | | | means your survival probability is very high. Very high! It |
| drinking alcohol immoderately, wearing tight bras, or not | | | | also means you have a broad range of alternative and |
| exercising, then we can find that there are indeed | | | | complementary treatment options.When we talk about |
| many ways we can reduce our chances of getting | | | | breast cancer, the second worst killer after lung |
| breast cancer and in essence preventing it.Individually, | | | | cancer, knowledge is not just power, it is your life! |
| we can prevent breast cancer by buying and eating | | | | |