The best cancer prevention technique uses equal parts awareness and action. Many believe if you eat loads of veggies, workout often and avoid smoking, you should be safe.
Well, while exercise and a balanced diet are known to improve your health, there are other activities and practices you can incorporate into your life to decrease your risk.
Cancer is caused by damage to our DNA, the chemical instructions that tell our cells what to do. Things in our environment, such as UV rays, or our lifestyle, such as the cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco, can damage our DNA.
"As many as 70% of known causes of cancers are avoidable and related to lifestyle,"says Thomas A. Sellers, Ph. D, associate director for cancer prevention and control at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.
9 Super simple ways to rub off CANCER from your life:
#1. Avoid eating excess protein:
- Most of us eat too much protein. Consider reducing your protein levels to one gram per kilogram of lean body weight unless you are in competitive athletics or pregnant.
- It would be unusual for most adults to need more than 100 grams of protein and most likely need close to half that amount.
#2. Cut out sugary drinks:
Not only do sugary drinks contribute to obesity and diabetes, they may also increase your risk of endometrial cancer.
According to research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, women who drank large amounts of sugar-laden beverages had up to an 87 percent higher risk of endometrial cancer, likely due to the pounds these drinks can add.
#3. Get some Vitamin-D:
Almost 90 percent of your body’s vitamin D comes directly from the sunlight—not from food or supplements.
Studies have shown that a vitamin D deficiency can reduce communication between cells, causing them to stop sticking together and allowing cancer cells to spread, according to Cancer.net, a patient information website from the American Society of Clinical Oncology.
People with low levels of vitamin D have a higher risk of multiple cancers, including breast, colon, prostate, ovarian, and stomach, as well as osteoporosis, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and high blood pressure.
#4. Drink green tea:
More than 50 studies on the association between tea and cancer risk have been published since 2006, according to the National Cancer Institute.
The healing powers of green tea have been valued in Asia for thousands of years. Some scientists believe that a chemical in green tea, EGCG, could be one of the most powerful anti-cancer compounds ever discovered due to the high number of antioxidants.
#5. Drink Clear Pure Water:
Trihalomethanes (THMs), one of the most common DBPs, are Cancer Group B carcinogens, meaning they've been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals.
A whole-house filtration system is your best choice to remove chlorine, chloramine, ammonia, DBPs and other contaminants from all of your water sources (bath, shower and tap).
#6. Don't eat the canned food:
Avoiding canned foods is perhaps your best way to avoid bisphenol-A (BPA) — an endocrine-disrupting chemical linked to cancer and reproductive and fetal development problems, among other health issues.
Though BPA is a widely used component of plastic containers, it's also found in food packaging and the inner lining of cans.
#7. Increase your daily activity:
Moderate exercise such as brisk walking 2 hours a week cuts risk of breast cancer 18%. Regular workouts may lower your risks by helping you burn fat, which otherwise produces its own estrogen, a known contributor to breast cancer.
A study linked four hours a week of walking or hiking with cutting the risk of pancreatic cancer in half. The benefits are probably related to improved insulin metabolism due to the exercise.
#8. Ditch Your Microwave:
Additionally, microwaving creates new compounds that are not found in humans or in nature, called radiolytic compounds. We don't yet know what these compounds are doing to your body.
#9. Head off cell phone risks:
Use your cell phone only for short calls or texts, or use a hands-free device that keeps the phone—and the radio frequency energy it emits—away from your head.
The point is more to preempt any risk than to protect against a proven danger: Evidence that cell phones increase brain cancer risk is "neither consistent nor conclusive," says the President's Cancer Panel report. But a number of review studies suggest there's a link.
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