Cancer Prevention

Melanoma: Deadly Skin Cancer | Green Tea May Offer Protection

The most serious and deadly form of skin cancer is malignant melanoma.  It is the leading cause of death from skin cancer because it is aggressive and fast growing and readily spreads (metastasizes) to other parts of the body, often quickly. The search for approaches to reduce the risk and incidence of melanoma and to slow its rapid growth and spread have included studies on the benefits of Green Tea.

3 Healing Skin Masks You Can Make At Home

Kitchen Medicine: Healing Rejuvenating Skin Masks
Here are some healing and nourishing masks you can make in your kitchen that will heal and transform your skin into a radiant glow.  Skin is damaged by environmental exposures include ultraviolet radiation from the sun, chemicals, especially from the chemical filled personal care products we use every day. 

Tips for At Home Facials
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How Exercise Can Dramatically Lower Cancer Risk

The Bottom Line and the Good News is  MORE EXERCISE AND ACTIVITY = LESS CANCER RISK, less stress, increased weight loss, better sleep, improved mood, less risk of heart disease and a better quality of life. In fact, leading edge integrative oncologist Keith Block MD feels so strongly about the benefits of exercise to cancer patients that he encourages his patients to get on a treadmill during their chemotherapy treatments in his clinic!

Grilled Foods Contain Cancer Causing Chemicals

Is your Barbecue Turning Your Healthy Food into Toxic Cancer Causing Poisons?

Grilled food just might increase your cancer risk.  It’s summer and the barbecue is all fired up.  You can smell it from your neighbors backyard and you are salivating.  Don’t jump over the fence quite so fast. Think before you eat!   The longer meat is cooked, the more dangerous it becomes.

Women Beware: Most Feminine Hygiene Products Contain Toxic Ingredients

The issue of what kind of feminine hygiene products you use is rarely if ever discussed. Yet it’s clearly an important topic for every woman out there.

Your skin is the largest organ in your body, and also the thinnest. Less than 1/10th of an inch separates your body from potential toxins. Worse yet, your skin is highly permeable — especially the skin around your vaginal area, not to mention inside the vagina itself.

This is why attention needs to be paid to the ingredients used in tampons and sanitary pads.

10 Ways to Cancer-Proof Your Barbecue

Summer is here. With it come vacations, lush gardens, and barbecues with friends and family. Unfortunately, barbecued food has been linked to an increased risk of cancer.  But you can have your barbecue and your health too with if you follow these suggestions adapted from my e-book Cancer-Proof:

1.  Keep a watchful eye to avoid barbecue flare-ups and the resulting charring of your food.  Charred food is linked with the creation of carcinogens.

3 Cancer Scares that You Need to Know About - NOW

We've all encountered cancer in some way: Whether we've lost a loved one or have battled it ourselves, the big C looms all around us. And, sometimes it feels like the media loves to capitalize on our fear - hardly a week goes by without the news telling us about part of our daily routine that might be slowly be killing us. Between the media constantly hyping cancer scares and the reality of so many people in our lives actually facing cancer, it's getting increasingly more difficult to have perspective on what should realistically concern us.

Non-Toxic Home Cleaning

Today's modern home is loaded with toxic and polluting substances designed to make domestic life easier.

The cost of these commercial, chemical-based products can be high -- long term health concerns for the family, and environmental pollution caused by their manufacture and disposal. In the US, for example, 1 in 3 people suffer from allergies, asthma, sinusitis or bronchitis (US National Center for Health Statistics). Treatment for these conditions should include reducing synthetic chemicals in the home environment.

Pregnancy safety advice prompts criticism

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has been criticised for saying pregnant women may want to "play it safe" and avoid chemicals found in many common household products.

It says there is not enough information about the chemical risks to foetuses from cosmetics and food packaging.

Items which it suggests should be avoided include tinned food, ready meals, shower gel and even new cars.

Critics say the advice is unhelpful, unrealistic and alarmist.

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