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Factors That Increased The Risk Of Cancer by jackstone

You may probably ask what factors increase the risk of cancer. And what are the foods that we should avoid to get rid of cancer. Of course, if you already had cancer, you should be now among those who are avoiding harmful foods just to get rid of getting your cancer more risky and hard to cure.

Dietary carcinogens is one of the culprit that increase the risk of cancer. It is said that it is divided into four groups.

One group is the "Naturally present carcinogens." When grains and nuts are contaminated with fungus, they produced chemical called aflatoxins. The aflatoxins are known to cause liver cancer.

Next is Food Preparation, when you grill meat carcinogens are form. Meats which were cooked in open fire produced the substance that is harmful to our body.

The traditionally high intake of fried and broiled food can also be blamed. This increased the risk of breast cancer, prostate and pancreas cancers.

Canned foods, Preservatives and Food Colors, these are also we should take note because preservatives taken in regularly can also increase the risk of cancer such as cancer of the stomach or colon.

Too much exposure in the sun can produce skin cancer.

Although this is not very common, it is still very alarming if you have contracted the skin cancer.

Exposure to Radiation may cause sarcoma, patients with continuous exposure to radiation because of the therapy they are undergoing may also sometimes have the risk of getting cancer of the bone and to the muscles.

Smoking is very common that everybody knows it can cause lung cancer, throat or mouth cancer.

Exposure to asbestos is also related to mesothelioma cancer, a disease in the lungs.

Even if we are now living in the modern and high technology world, medical science still cannot find the complete remedy to cure cancer diseases. There are still no cures to cancer except to prevent it early. Some find hope for alternative and natural healing. Their strong beliefs that they can be cured in conventional or even alternative condition their mind and body to worry less which has great benefit in treating cancer.

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Exercise and the Cancer Patient by exercise, cancer, low intensity exercise, chronic health conditions, physical activity,

In the past, people with chronic illnesses like cancer were often advised to rest and avoid physical activity. Today, many cancer patients use exercise as part of their total treatment plan. Exercise benefits cancer patients in the following ways:

* Improves their quality of life.

* Increases lean muscle mass and maintains strength.

* Reduces fat gain.

* Promotes overall better physical functioning which provides resilience to cancer.

* Improves self esteem, depression and anxiety.

* Instills a sense of accomplishment.

* Reduces risk of other chronic ailments by making the various physiological sytems more resilient.

* Increases circulation throughout the body.

* Lessens stress, depression and anxiety which are all common cancer traits.

* Improves the immune system which can result in improvement of the cancerous condition.

Many studies have shown that exercise reduces many of the unpleasant side effects of both cancer and chemotherapy. Cancer patients who exercise regularly report decreased nausea and fatigue as well as an increased tolerance for normal activity and overall quality of life.

In addition to the physical improvements, cancer patients also benefit emotionally. Exercise improves symptoms of depression, confusion and anxiety. Other mental and emotional benefits include an increased sense of accomplishment, feeling more independent and experiencing a higher self esteem.

Exercise exerts it's mental effects by altering key brain neurotransmitters which make us feel better, less anxious and less depressed. One kind of these neurotransmitters, called endorphins, also acts as a natural pain killer which can help cancer patients who experience pain.

Cancer is an immune system disorder and moderate exercise has been shown to boost the immune system by increasing the number of white blood cells and killer T cells. It also induces favorable hormonal changes which lower stress hormones, like cortisol, and promote healing.

Cancer is no different than other chronic conditions such as diabetes or heart disease when it comes to the necessity of exercise. Most experts are now recommending a low intensity/ moderate duration program and then slowly building up the intensity rather than the time. It's important to try several activities until you find one you reaaly like. Cancer patients have many physical and emotional ups and downs. If you are having a bad day the last thing you'll want to do is perform some form of activity you don't like.

Physical activity can truly benefit the physiological and psychological conditions of cancer patients. It can actually improve the cancer itself. Exercise improves overall health, enhances the immune system, helps gain muscle and and lose fat, and keeps emotional spirits up. Simple moderate exercise programs are now becoming common place as a part of many cancer treatment programs.

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Dr. Lanny Schaffer is an Exercise Physiologist and the President of The International Fitness Academy. For more cutting edge fitness information go to http://www.aerobics-exercise-caoch.com

Healing Cancer With The Mind! by Dr Laurence Magne

From the desk of Dr Magne, author of Cancer Free For Life

The power of your mind over functions of your body is widely acknowledged. Medical studies that measure the effectiveness of treatment have proved that patients often improve even when the pill they are taking is only a sugar pill. This is because they believe that the pill they are taking will heal them. This phenomenon is known as the placebo effect. In fact, in drug trials, the health improvements in the placebo group are often as significant as those in the group receiving the actual drug.

The placebo effect is the measurable, observable, or felt improvement in health not attributable to treatment. A placebo is a medication or treatment believed by the administrator of the treatment to have no power. Placebos may be sugar pills or starch pills. Even "fake" surgery and "fake" psychotherapy are considered placebos.

A medical doctor may have results with a patient on the force of his conviction, and because the patient places his trust -and his life- in the hands of the medical profession, he believes that the doctor cured him, when in fact, he cured himself.

No matter what, you're healed through your own intervention and belief. You're the one who controls your entire body through the power of your mind, and if you're determined not to be cured, no surgery, no drug or placebo will heal you.

Why an inert substance, or a fake surgery or therapy, would be effective in healing is not known. Some believe the placebo effect is psychological, due to a belief in the treatment or to a subjective feeling of improvement. Your beliefs and hopes about a treatment, combined with your suggestibility, may have a significant biochemical effect. Your sensory experience and your thoughts affect your body's neurochemical system, which affects and is affected by your hormonal and immune systems. Current knowledge demonstrates that a person's hopeful attitude and beliefs may be very important to their physical well-being and recovery from injury or illness.

It may be that much of the placebo effect is a matter of mind over behavior. The changed behavior includes a change in attitude, in what you say about how you feel, and how you act. It also affects your body chemistry.

Strangely, the placebo effect is not limited to the subjective sensations of patients; some studies show actual physiological change as a result of sham treatments. In a study of asthmatics, researchers found that they could produce dilation of the airways by simply telling people they were inhaling a bronchiodilator, even when they weren't. Fifty-two percent of the colitis patients treated with placebo in eleven different trials reported feeling better - and fifty percent of the inflamed intestines actually looked better when assessed with a sigmoidoscope.

Spontaneous healing and spontaneous remission of cancer cannot explain all the healing or improvement that takes place because of placebos.

What is the explanation for the placebo effect? Some think it is the touching, the caring, the attention, and other interpersonal communication that are part of the controlled study process (or the therapeutic setting), along with the hopefulness and encouragement provided by the experimenter/healer, affect the mood of the subject, which in turn triggers physical changes such as release of endorphins. The process reduces stress by providing hope or reducing uncertainty about what treatment to take or what the outcome will be. The reduction in stress prevents or slows down further harmful physical changes from occurring.

The truth is that the placebo effect is huge - anywhere between 35 and 75 percent of patients benefit from taking a dummy pill in studies of new drugs - so huge, in fact, that it should probably be put to conscious use in clinical practice, even if we do not entirely understand how it works.

The inconvenient evidence keeps trickling in that if placebos are lies, they can also be, "lies that heal." In an influential article first published in 1955, the Harvard researcher Henry Beecher concluded that between 30 and 40 percent of any treated group would respond to a placebo. Studies since then have shown placebos working for certain conditions - pain, depression, some heart ailments, gastric ulcers and other stomach complaints - in closer to fifty or sixty percent of subjects, sometimes more. Indeed, it's not unheard of for placebo effects to exceed those attributed to the active drug.

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Dr Laurence Magne Publisher, Author Cancer Free For Life Email : lmagne@yahoo.com Website : http://cancer-free-for-life.com

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