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We know more about preventing cancer than ever before. Implement these six surprising tips into your daily life and you will be well on your way to stopping this frightening disease before it strikes you.
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- Cancer-Proof Your Body
- Think Before You Drink
- Strive for Your High School Weight
- Treat Yourself to Milk, Cookies, and a Vitamin D
- Get Up and Move It, Shake It, or at Least Take a Walk
- Be a Quitter
- Pile On the Greens
- Don't Believe Everything You Hear or Read
- Relegate Meat to a Side-Dish Status
- For Women at Higher Risk
Sometimes it can feel like every other person you know is getting cancer -- and everyone else is worrying about when they might receive the same dreaded diagnosis. While it's true that more than 10 million Americans are battling some form of the disease, cancer is more preventable than you might think. In fact, 90 to 95 percent of cancers develop as a result of factors you have control over. Much of it boils down to your diet and exercise habits.
You have the ability to turbocharge your immune system, keep your hormonal mix at healthy levels, and help defend your body's cells from DNA damage so that cancer has far less of a chance. And as an added bonus, following anti-C strategies will also help you maintain an optimal weight and cut your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Call it "healthy multitasking."
Maureen Thiel's health care providers told her the lump on her breast was harmless. Two and a half years later at 43 years old she was dead due to a delayed diagnosis. Two young boys and a husband were left behind. The real tragedy: It could have been prevented.
Bill Thiel will not let her death have been in vain. To fulfill a promise to his wife, Bill created Maureen's Mission, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending misdiagnosis and delayed diagnosis of women across the country with breast lumps. It is critical
that women partner with their health care practitioner as well as educate themselves.
Thiel is trying to get the support of other state breast coalitions along with local, state and federal legislators to pass a bill to protect all women in this country to ensure an early correct diagnosis.
Visit www.maureensmission.org