Protect Yourself From Cancer

Some ideas to help reduce inflammation and the proliferation of tumors in your body:

• Consume more dark, leafy greens, cruciferous veggies, garlic, onions, turmeric, and green tea.

• Focus on organic, grass-fed animal products.

• Get more omega-3 by eating more fish, such as sardines, salmon, mackerel, as well as flaxseeds.

• Decrease your intake of vegetable oils, sugar, starches, and refined carbs.  These foods are more inflammatory.

• Don’t smoke.  Acupuncture can help you quit.

• Get a water filter or drink filtered water when possible, you can buy the best one here: http://www.multipureusa.com/ewood/index2.html

• Limit your alcohol intake, a glass of red wine at dinner is fine.

• Avoid chemicals like parabens, phthalates, pesticides (round-up), insecticides, aluminum (antiperspirants), you can check this online database to see what is really in the products you use:  http://www.ewg.org/skindeep/

• Exercise, even if just gently, 20 minutes per day.  Try to walk more.

• Get 20 minutes of sunlight per day to boost your Vitamin D levels, along with your mood.

• Manage stress through yoga, meditation, dance, sex, whatever works for you.

• Accept and express your emotions.  We all have anger, fear, sadness, it is part of being human.

• Keep in touch with friends who you can talk to, laugh with, and offer mutual support during tough times.

~Thanks to Pamela Weintraub and her cancer-fighting article in the May 2013 issue of  Experience L!fe magazine and David Servan-Schreiber, MD, PhD, who wrote Anticancer: A New Way of Life.