Cancer Prevention: Rethink Your Diet as Well as Your Smoking

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From What I heard artificial sweetners like Asparatem and Splenda use Taurine to work . Taurine is an essential ammino acid used in body to create protein so if that is used up you will tired all the time as your body cannot make protein. Please provide me with some objective study which was not financed by someone with interest in these sweetners

K.L of CA 12:54AM February 05, 2013

I want to know how my grampa got lung cancer he for sure does not and did not ever smoke. he doesnt interact with people that do either. He eats healthy and good. He does have diabedies, i dont know if that would have anything todowith it?

jessica coral gensamer of NM 5:57PM September 19, 2012

cancer reuires an ACID envirement to live. the cure or pevention is your body PH.

if you will ALKALINE YOUR body PH to 7. you will not get cancer. if you have it it will dry up and disapear. It just can not live. My neighbor had cancer the lumps were gone in 30 days, dr was puzzled. I have never had cancer. age 66. I never will. I know PH varies constantly but i keep it primarly between 6.5 and 7. This is done by stopping all soda pops. drinking real homemade lemonade. Filtered water w/pinch of Baking soda. a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass on water daily. 80 % diet of green vegetables.

jack of AR 10:45AM January 28, 2011

Bras restrict the lymphatic nodes in the exact places in the body where they are the MOST ABUNDANT your arm pits and more importantly the breasts. My bride rarely wears one unless she is in a professional setting (She is a University Administrator). Burn the bras girls and live longer BTW my bride is 47 and as pert as she was at 19 when I met her albeit she is a 34. None the less unless you are a DD OR DDD even wearing a bra sooner or later gravity will get you, better off cancer free then losing them to a mastectomy altogether.

Grizz of IA 6:25PM November 02, 2010

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Yoyo of WA 1:16PM November 02, 2010

The Cancer drug makers and diabetes drug makers take in 50 billion$$$$ every year with no cure!!

Food Chemicals are the cause of the diabetes,Cancer and obesity Crisis

The FDA and Drug makers know this and are laughing to the Billionaire$$$ bank!

The food chemicals break the gut(insulin) and this is the cause of the diabetes and obesity crisis IT IS NOT THE SODA

A filmmaker has been reversing diabetes and Obesity in now 10 countries and the drug makers do not promote the story

just google SPIRIT HAPPY DIET

AmyLynn2 of CA 6:15PM October 19, 2010

This is perfect for my students who's age ranges are 14-18. They fight the addictions of eating poorly and smoking everyday, and are shocked when the school's cafeteria changes it's food to more healthy choices like soy and whole wheat. I will read it and create a lesson on this article as they attempt to perform the President's Physical Education Challenge Test, where they must run 1 mile to assess their cardiovascular/lung performance.

meredith leeds jaffess of NY 8:08AM September 23, 2010

Just some other ideas to aid in prevention is supplements. Along with diet, exercise, and a good sleeping regiment, the right supplements can help. I personally take the immune supplement Beta 1,3-D glucan by NutriMune. i ahve been taking it for more than a year now, and I feel great. I highly recommend checking them out and give them a read.

http://www.immunable.com

Chase of SC 2:36PM September 20, 2010

This article shows two of the biggest reasons cancer is so prevalent in today's society. Smoking affects cancer not only within the smoker, but also those surrounding him or her. Secondhand smoke is just as deadly as first-hand smoke. I personally grew up with four parents (two biological parents and two step-parents) who smoke all day, every day. I myself have never allowed myself to become a smoker, but I can only imagine what the inside of my body looks like. I may have successfully countered the secondhand smoke by eating right and exercising daily. This is a point I feel the article misses that is incredibly important. Exercise is just as important-if not more important-than eating right. Now, by exercise, I do not mean vigorous gym-type exercise. Exercise can be done through many forms, such as taking the stairs instead of the elevator or walking/riding a bike to work instead of driving. This in turn invokes better habits for the you surrounding you, thus possibly helping decrease the high level of childhood obesity in this country. By decreasing this level, it may be possible to decrease the amount of obese adults, thus increasing our country's overall health. Obesity is almost as deadly as smoking, and has several health risks also associated with it, such as cardiovascular disease and Type II diabetes (which used to be mainly associated with adults, but is now appearing in many of today's youth). Obesity can be caused by not eating right combined with sedentary (inactive) living. By eating right a person gains more energy to perform these basic exercises (walking/taking the stairs), so it is just as important. Exercise is also a proven stress reducer, which can act in place of nicotine addiction, which may decrease the need for smoking. Our country as a whole needs to take more steps against all of these risk factors, and maybe, just maybe, we can improve our overall health and decrease the prevalence of cancer and disease.

msweite of IL 3:35PM September 13, 2010

1919: HEALTH: Washington University medical student Alton Ochsner and other students are urgently summoned to observe lung cancer surgery--a disease, they are told, they may never see again. Ochsner doesn't see another case for 17 years. Then he sees 8 in six months--all smokers who had picked up the habit in WW I, as had an entire generation.

It takes 20-50 years for most cancers to manifest. People don't start smoking a cigarette and immediately drop dead in the street. The fact is, tobacco-related disease rates rise and fall in lock step with smoking rates--separately for men and women. For example, as male smoking rates fell over the last 20 years, lung cancer rates for men have fallen. In the same period, lung cancer rates rose for women--in line with the rise of women's smoking since Philip Morris' Virginia Slims push in the 70s.

gene of NY 5:44PM September 09, 2010

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