CAN OBESITY INCREASE YOUR RISKS OF CANCER?

Well it has been said that obesity raises the risk of getting cancer. The article below talks about it. I hope you enjoy it and learn to live healthy.

Oh! By the way how was your New Year celebration? Did you make any resolutions (and plans to keep them)? Hope one of your New year’s resolution was to eat healthy.

Breast Cancer - Another Obesity Victim
By Tom Crystal

Obesity raises the risk of various types of cancer. And only 3% people know that obesity increases cancer risks. According to a recent research based on one million Americans conducted by the American cancer society, 14% of cancer deaths in men and 20% of cancer deaths in women occur due to Obesity. Scientists say that 90,000 deaths can be avoided in America if they take good care to maintain their body weight. Women are more likely to get cancer in their breasts, gallbladder, ovaries, colon and cervix while men get cancer in colon and rectum.

Breast cancer in women:

There are more than 200 different types of cancer, but together breast, lung, bowel and prostate cancer cover half of the cancer cases. Breast cancer is the most common cancer found in females. Overweight and obesity are the major causes of breast cancer.

Obesity and Breast cancer risk in females:

Obese women have higher amounts of estrogen in their body. Estrogen is mainly produced from the fatty tissues and more amount of fat in your body means you have higher chances of getting affected by breast cancer. Good nutrition, healthy living conditions and a fine environment may help girls to start puberty earlier in life and attain menopause later. Estrogen develops though out the fertility period. And better levels of estrogen in the body increases the risk of breast cancer in women.

Breast cancer in men:

Breast cancer is generally found in females but it is also seen in males. Recent research shows that breast cancer among males is also on the increase. And obesity is one of its main causes. In males too estrogen is responsible for breast cancer.

Obesity and breast cancer :

• Obesity affects both the development and progression of breast cancer.

• Post menopausal cancer risk is higher among obese women.

• Breast cancer mortality is higher in obese women.

• Body weight measured at different times during life also causes breast cancer.

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Hope you liked the article. I hope to see you next week as healthy as ever.
Remember to invite your family and friends to this blog, you could unknowingly save their lives.

Remain beautifully blessed,
Your girl, Bim nubi.

Usual signs of Breast Cancer

Hey you guys.I hope you haven't missed me that much and forgotten about me. Well i am back with a whole lot of information on cancer and how we can all prevent it.
I was flipping through some sites and saw this article about the signs that you can use to suspect if one has breast cancer and i have decided to publish it, hope you find it very useful.

Signs Know If You Have Breast Cancer
By Tabitha Kimani

Knowing your body well will help you know normal changes and changes that need medical attention. Having regular check up give you great defense against cancer.

Following Are Some Symptoms of Cancer To look for:

- Unfamiliar pain in your breast or in the armpit - It's unusual in sense that pain is different from how you feel when you have monthly periods. Also if it you feel it in one rather than both breasts. If it is not caused by hormonal changes then go to the doctor for checked up.

- A lump or a tumor in the breast or in the armpit - Sometimes is caused by hormonal changes but if it persists don't wait before it is too late. Go for screening and know the cause of swelling.

- A change in size or shape of the mature breast - If you notice any changes in a mature breast more so if it's occurring on one breast only. That is a cause for alarm to seek health professional for cancer breast examination.

- Fluid other than milk leaking from the nipple - During your menopause you may experience non-blood leakage from nipples of both breasts due to hormonal changes. But if it occurs on one breast only, then you need medical attention.

- Change in size of the nipple - When your body weight changes it is natural for nipple to change its size too. But if it retracts in and doesn't return to its normal shape, seek help from your doctor for cancer manual examination. If there is a problem below the surface of the nipple then having a diagnostic mammogram or ultrasound may be the best option.

- Changes of color, shape or texture of the nipple - If you notice puckers, a rash on the nipple skin or darker skin that around the nipple. And after using some cream still doesn't help, then don't waste more time consult doctor when still in its curable stage.

However it is important to know that breast implants, usage of antiperspirants, and wearing under wire bras do not raise your risk for breast cancer. There is also no proven evidence yet to link breast cancer and abortion.

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Hope you have learnt something from this article? Like i always say the best way to beat cancer is to prevent it, so even if you don't have cancer you can help prevent it by sharing any information you find.

Invite your friends and family to this blog to learn something about cancer or print out any posting that is published and let them read it, who knows you could unknowingly save a life.

Remain beautifully blessed,
your girl,Bim nubi.

DOES VITAMIN A CAUSE CANCER?

According to Swedish researchers, high intake of vitamin A apparently reduces the risk of developing gastric cancer. Vitamin A comes pre-formed, as retinol in foods of animal origin, or in precursor form, as carotenoids in fruits and vegetables e.g. Carrots. Dr Susanna C. Larasson of the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm and colleagues explain in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Vitamin A may influence the development of stomach cancer through its role in controlling call proliferation; the researchers write that however, epidermiologic studies of vitamin A, retinol (preformed vitamin A) and provitamin A carotenoid in relation to the risk of gastric cancer have documented inconsistent results.

Well that is all for today. I don’t know when I would be able to post because I have got to go to work and always arrive late and tired. I will however give it my best shot.

Stay beautifully blessed.
Your girl, Bim nubi.

FACTS ABOUT CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY AND RADIATION

Hi you guys. I have an article on cancer chemotherapy and radiation that I hope would help you a lot.

Cancer is usually managed using chemotherapy and radiation. Chemotherapy is used as a palliative measure and to prolong life. It may involve the use of cytotoxic drugs, steroid hormones and immunotherapy. However chemotherapy and radiation have some certain aspects that cause discomfort to patients undergoing the treatment. They include:

Chemotherapy and radiation can cause cancer cells to mutate and become resistant and difficult to destroy. Surgery can also cause cancer cells to spread to other sites.

Chemotherapy involves poisoning the rapidly-growing cancer cells and also destroys rapidly-growing healthy cells in the bone marrow, gastrointestinal tract etc, and cause organ damage like the liver, kidneys, heart, lungs.

Radiation while destroying cancer cells also burns, scars and damages healthy cells, tissues and organs.

Initial treatment with chemotherapy and radiation will often reduce tumor size. However prolonged use of chemotherapy does not result in more tumor destruction.

When the body has too much toxic burden from chemotherapy and radiation, the immune system is either compromised or destroyed, hence the person can succumb to various kinds of infections and complications.

With all these complication or undesirable effect that chemotherapy and radiation has, they are still the major methods of dealing with cancer. They give cancer patients the hope of living a better and healthier life.

However there might be a new way of complimenting the efforts of chemotherapy and radiation, thereby reducing the amount of exposure to these methods. Want to know about it? Join me next time and you would know because I am not letting the cat out of the bag.

Hope you are truly informed. Like I always say, let all your family and friends know about what you learn here, it is your duty to them.

Till I come your way next time, it’s your girl, Bim nubi saying ‘Remain beautifully blessed’. Ciao.

FACTS ABOUT CANCEROUS/CANCER CELLS

Hi ya all, hope you are doing great and have not missed me too much? I have a wonderful piece on cancer cells that might make you sad and spur you into eating and living healthy. But it is important that I share it with you. The most important way to fight any disease is with knowledge, by knowing what causes it, how to prevent it and adhering strictly to its preventive ways we can reduce the chances of acquiring the disease (I hope you understand what I am trying to say).

It would be wonderful if you don’t keep this information to yourself but share with others. Hope you are enlightened with it.

Here are the facts:
Fact #1: Every person has cancer cells in the body (that is not good to know). These cancer cells do not show up in the standard tests until they have multiplied to a few billion. This means that when doctors tell cancer patients that there are no more cancer cells in their bodies after treatment, it is because the tests are unable to detect the cancer cells as they have not reached the detectable cells.

Fact #2: Cancer cells occur between 6 to more than 10 times in a person’s lifetime.

Fact #3: Cancer cells cannot thrive in an oxygenated environment. Exercising daily and deep breathing help to get more oxygen down to the cellular level (i.e. the body’s cells). Now you have one more reason to exercise. Oxygen therapy is another means employed to destroy cancer cells.

Fact #4: When a person’s immune system is strong, the cancer cells will be destroyed and be prevented from multiplying and forming tumors. So try to take lots of fruits and vegetables to help improve your immune system.

Fact #5: When a person has cancer it indicates such person has multiple nutritional deficiencies. It could also be due to genetic, environmental, food and lifestyle factors.

Fact #6: Cancer cell walls have a tough protein covering. By refraining from / eating less of meat, it frees more enzymes to attack the protein walls of cancer cells and allows the body‘s killer cells to destroy the cancer cells.

Know that cancer is a disease of the mind, body and spirit. Having a proactive and positive spirit would help the cancer patient to be a survivor. Anger, resentment and bitterness put the body into a stressful and acidic environment. Learn to have a loving and forgiving spirit. Learn to relax and enjoy life (everyone should do that).

Hope you enjoyed today’s piece. Remember to share what you have learnt with other people.
Stay beautifully blessed, your girl, Bim nubi. Ciao.