Preventing cancer is the easiest way you can take to keep cancer from attacking you. It is estimated that 10 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed worldwide each year.
In just 10 years, that number is expected to jump by 50% to 15 million. Those numbers are just estimates, so it could be a lot worse than experts predict.
Cancer is not prejudiced. It can affect anyone, anytime. In most cases, most everyone you know has cancer or knows someone with cancer. A total of 1,479,350 new cancer cases and 562,340 deaths from cancer are projected to occur in the United States in 2009. Currently, one in four deaths in the United States are cancer related.
Cancer, although unpredictable, doesn't happen overnight or come out of nowhere. If your family is predisposed to certain genetic cancers, it can be a bit more predictable. In any event, preventing cancer is the best defense you have! Remember the old adage: 'The best defense is a good offense!'
Preventing Cancer - What You Don't Know About Cancer Can Hurt You!
Everyone has cancer cells in their body. Cancer cells do not show up in standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion cells. When doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells after treatment, it just means the tests they've run are unable to detect them. This is only because they have not reached a detectable size, not because they aren't present.
Cancer cells can occur in your body between 6 - 10 (or more) times in your lifetime.
When your immunity is strong, cancer cells are destroyed and prevented from multiplying and forming tumors.
When you get cancer, it indicates that you may have multiple nutritional deficiencies. The cause could be genetic, environmental, food related, or from various lifestyle choices.
To overcome nutritional deficiencies, change your diet to include various cancer fighting vitamin supplements, which will help strengthen your immunity. Preventing cancer is much easier when your body is equipped with the right antioxidants.
Chemotherapy involves poisoning rapidly growing cancer cells but it also destroys healthy cells in the bone marrow and gastrointestinal tract, and can cause organ damage.
Radiation, while destroying cancer cells, also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues, and organs.
Initial chemotherapy and radiation treatments will often reduce the size of a tumor. However prolonged use of chemotherapy and radiation does not result in more tumor destruction.
When your body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation, it compromises and destroys your immunity, hence you can be susceptible to various kinds of infections and other complications.
Chemotherapy and radiation can have adverse effects. Both can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant, which makes them difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other organs or tissues.
An effective way to battle cancer is to starve cancer cells by not feeding it with the foods it needs to multiply.
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Sugar is a cancer enhancer. By cutting out sugar from your diet, you also cut off an important food supply that cancer cells feed on. Moderating the amounts of sugar in your diet is a natural way to lose weight but it also helps in preventing cancer.
Sugar substitutes like Stevia, xytol, and honey are natural products. Even better natural substitutes would be Manuka honey or molasses but only in very small amounts. Table salt has a chemical added to make it white in color. A better alternative is sea salt.
Milk causes your body to produce excess mucus, especially in the gastrointestinal tract. Cancer cells feed on mucus. By cutting out milk and substituting with unsweetened soy milk, cancer cells are starved, and cannot mutate or grow. Consuming other products made with soy beans can also help in preventing cancer and cut down on mucus production.
Japanese women consume soy foods on a daily basis, and although there are many differences in the diets and lifestyles of Japanese versus American women, researchers have identified soy foods as one possible contributing factor to lower breast cancer in Japan.
Cancer cells thrive in an acid environment. Your body naturally prefers to be alkaline however, a meat-based diet is highly acidic. For that reason, it's best to eat fish or chicken regularly, rather than beef or pork. Meat also contains livestock antibiotics, growth hormones, and parasites, which are all harmful to your body. This is especially true for people who already have cancer.
A diet consisting of 80% fresh vegetables and juice, whole grains, seeds, nuts, and fruits help keep your body alkaline. (With only 20% from cooked foods.) Fresh vegetable juices made by juicing, provide live enzymes that are easily absorbed at cellular levels within 15 minutes of consumption. This helps nourish and enhance growth of healthy cells. To obtain live enzymes for building healthy cells, drink fresh vegetable juice and eat raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Enzymes are destroyed at temperatures of 104 degrees F, or 40 degrees C.
Moderate caffeine in your diet, by consuming less coffee, tea, and chocolate. Green tea is a better alternative and has cancer fighting properties and is well known for preventing cancer. Drinking purified water or filtered water will help avoid known toxins and heavy metals in tap water. Distilled water is acidic, so it's best to avoid it also.
Meat protein is difficult to digest and requires a lot of digestive enzymes. The older you get, the more digestive enzymes you need. Unfortunately, supplies decline as you age. Undigested meat remaining in the intestines becomes putrefied, which leads to more toxic buildup.
Cancer cell walls have a tough protein wall covering it. By refraining from and/or eating less meat, it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows your body's killer cells to destroy cancer cells.
Some vitamin supplements build up your immunity, which enables your body to destroy any cancer cells you have. Vitamin E for example, is known to cause apoptosis, or programmed cell death. Apoptosis is your body's method of disposing of damaged, unwanted, or unneeded cells.
Cancer is also a disease of the mind, body, and spirit. A proactive and positive attitude will help destroy even more cancer cells. Anger, bitterness, and stress, and anxiety leave your body highly acidic and predispose you to certain cancers.
Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily and deep breathing methods help oxygenate your body at a cellular level. Oxygen therapy is another way of preventing cancer and destroying cancer cells.
The foods you eat should not be heated in the microwave using plastic containers. Plastic containers contain dioxins, which are highly poisonous to your body. This especially applies to foods that contain fat. The combination of fat, high heat, and plastics, releases dioxin into the food you're heating and ultimately into the cells of your body. Dioxin chemicals cause cancer, especially breast cancer.
Dioxins are highly poisonous to the cells of your body. Don't freeze water in plastic bottles, as this also releases dioxins from the plastic.
Always use glass containers, such as Corning Ware, Pyrex or ceramic containers for heating food. You get the same results without the dioxin. Any microwavable foods should be removed from the container and heated in something else.
Paper isn't as poisonous but you don't know what's in the paper product. It's safer to use tempered glass containers. A while ago, some of the fast food restaurants moved away from the foam containers to paper. Dioxins one of the reasons.
Plastic wrap, such as Saran wrap, is just as dangerous when placed over foods to be cooked in the microwave. As your food is nuked, high heat causes poisonous toxins to melt out of the plastic wrap and drip into the food you're heating. It's much better to cover food with a paper towel or not use a microwave in the first place.
You can also help in preventing cancer by losing more weight. 14% of cancer deaths in men and 20% of cancer deaths in women may be due to being overweight or obese. Staying healthy is the best way to reduce your risks of cancer. Reducing stress levels and exercising regularly are also key components of any healthy lifestyle.
