Is Cancer Prevention important to you? Then you will want to know the Top 10 Ways to prevent cancer. Cancer prevention is easy if you follow some of the simple guidelines recommended below.
As of a few years ago, an estimated 1.5 million people in the US were diagnosed with cancer. There were over 650,000+ cancer deaths last year, which ranks cancer as the #2 leading cause of death (after heart disease).
Cancer is caused by changes in genes that control the growth and death of cells, and mutations in certain genes can make cancer more likely to develop. The disease develops when cells continue to grow and divide instead of dying off, as they would normally do. As cancer cells multiply, they can damage nearby tissues and spread to other parts of the body and develop into new tumors.
What you put into your body through drinking and eating, your activity level, and other lifestyle behaviors can all affect your risk for cancer. Here are the first five of the Top 10 Ways To Prevent Cancer.
Top 10 Ways To Prevent Cancer
1. Avoid tobacco products and second-hand smoke – Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in the US for both men and women. Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. Smoking causes damage to nearly every organ in the human body, is linked to 15+ different cancers, and causes 30% of all cancer deaths. Yet 1 in 5 Americans continue to smoke. If you do smoke, take the necessary steps to quit for your health and your loved ones.
2. Your diet can affect your risk for cancer. Eat right, be active, and maintaining a healthy weight are important ways to reduce your risk of cancer (not to mention heart disease and diabetes as well). Eat and exercise your way to better health. What you eat (and exclude from your diet), along with how active you are, can decrease your risk of developing cancer. The best ways to reduce your risk is through simple lifestyle changes like smart cooking, controlling your weight, and adding veggies especially and some fruits to your diet.
3. Achieve and maintain a healthy weight – Obesity increases your chance of developing certain types of cancer: breast, kidney, esophagus, colon/rectum, and pancreas. Make smart food choices, control portion sizes, and fill up on fruits and vegetables to help manage your healthy weight. I recommend Cinch Inch loss Plan to help you lose the weight, burn the fat, and keep your muscle.
4. Exercise - Regular exercise burns calories and can help you reach and maintain a healthy weight. Pick something that keeps you moving like walking, hiking, biking, swimming, dancing, and team sports. Gradually work up to 30-45 minutes of exercise/day for five+ days per week.
5. Eat more vegetables, fruits, and whole grains – they are naturally rich in
dietary antioxidants like vitamin C & E, and carotenoids that help to protect your healthy genes from oxidative damage. Fruits and vegetables are also rich in fiber, which can speed the transit of food through the digestive system and may reduce the absorption of cancer causing chemicals. So eating a wide variety of fruits and vegetables may be the best way to ensure broad-spectrum protection. It is generally best to eat fresh rather than salted, cured, or pickled. The less processed the food, the healthier it will be for you.
Be sure to check out my next blog article for the next five helpful tips on Cancer Prevention | Top 10 Ways To Prevent Cancer – Part 2
I am sharing the Top 10 ways to prevent cancer to help people avoid going through this terrible disease process down the road and would rather have you learn about Cancer Prevention before it’s too late.
To Your Health! 
Health & Nutrition Advisor
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{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }
Great post! It is so true how often all the chronic diseases that are running rampant through our society are directly related to what we eat and how physically active we are. It is vital that we promote healthy eating and exercise in order to positively affect the prevelance of these diseases.
Thanks for a great post!
Amber Keinath
Hi Amber,
Thanks for the comment. It looks like you know about health and nutrition as well. The more people that can spread the word, the better
Tracy
Very true, Tracy!
Yes, the effect of nutrition, (or the lack thereof) on our
health, yes even to make us more prone to get cancer,
cannot be over stated!
To underscore how much the western diet has impacted
the health of us fellow Americans, there is an amazing
finding of a recent study that states:
Omega-3 deficiency causes 96,000 US deaths per year!
Our processed food industry took away from our diet the
omega 3 oil, and replaced it with enriched omega 6 oils
(like margarine, for example) to give us items that last longer
on the shelf.
Also, there has been a study of the general diet in Israel
(where omega 3 deficiency is the worst in the world)
linking omega 3 deficiency to a direct increase in cancer
cases of women!
I agree with your closing words so much:
“get your body healthy at the cellular level.”
Our health is determined right there at the cell membrane!
Robert Peil