A report out in the Daily Mail today reveals that the ‘mysterious men in white coats’ who are presumably behind all these surveys are now placing the rise in some women’s cancers on their lifestyle. Am sure this applies to the rise in men’s cancers too and if not some cancers then why not all?
Which leads me to the question – what does your lifestyle do to help you prevent cancer?
It follows suit doesn’t it that if what we are doing in our day to day lives can increase our risk of cancer then what we do can equally prevent it as well.
I’m not sure that everybody gets this concept though. I think there is still a huge belief that cancer is just something that happens to us; that we are unlucky if it strikes us.
I don’t think that we actually spend too much time thinking about the things that we might be inviting into our lives that could aid our fall into cancer.
We all have cancer cells inside us – actually let me rephrase that a little. All the cells in our body are capable – under the right circumstances – to start multiplying out of control thus becoming cancer cells.
We influence those circumstances by the foods we eat, the exercise we take, the amount of stress in our live’s and how we deal with it, the quality of our sleep, the way we subject our bodies to different chemicals (i.e. skin care products, household products, make up etc etc), the amount of alcohol we drink, whether we smoke ……. and the list goes on.
Lets just take the first from the list – food. So much of our food today is tampered with. Denatured, processed, refined, added to with chemicals, preservatives and flavourings all of which we have no idea of the origin of.
Why would you eat something when half the ingredients that make up that product you can’t even pronounce let alone identify.
Where does that food come from, what is in it, what do those ingredients do for us, offer us in terms of nutrition. If you don’t know the answers then why are you eating it?
Hippocrates who was considered the ‘father of western medicine’ said ‘Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food’. He understood the importance that food has on our bodies and it is an importance that has been lost in recent years.
Now we get consumed by food, emotionally attached and addicted to it. We place too much importance on it, expecting it to entertain us and comfort us. This is not what food is for.
Food is fuel for our body and it gives us the means with which to tackle everything else in our life with strength and vitality.
We need to take back some control and simplify our lifestyles so that we can reduce the risks we are allowing modern living to place on us.
Of course cancer has been around for thousands of years but it has never been around in the numbers that it is today. There is always a risk that we may develop a serious life threatening disease but it would seem that we are playing Russian Roulette with that risk.
Think about what you are doing in your life that could potentially be increasing your chances of developing cancer and then do something about it. Before it is too late.
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Day 3 of my countdown to Christmas and the biggest tip that I can give you to get through the festive season unscathed is to PLAN, PLAN, PLAN.
