Breast Cancer - Article 1 (page 2)
BREAST CANCER - page 2
PREVENTION: The best medicine and best doctor is able to prevent disease. Here is what we know about breast cancer prevention. It begins with strengthening your immune system. Follow this advice and you will not only help to reduce your risk of breast cancer but hopefully prevent it and many other illnesses, too.
- If you smoke - QUIT!! – I often tell my patients, if I could think of one good thing about smoking I would tell them, but I can not. NO! NO! NO! QUIT!
- Exercise 30 minutes 5 days per week.
- Drink plenty of water, good old H2O! 8 to 10 glasses per day to keep our body fluid and flush toxins
- Eat your vegetables!!! Squash, carrots, tomatoes. These contain carrotenoids that fight disease.
- Eat Salmon, olive oil, lean meats, don’t fry. Foods in their natural form have many “anti-oxidants” that help our body fight off “free radicals” that promote disease.
- Supplement your diet with Vitamins E,C, Omega-3. Again, these are powerful anti-oxidants that have favorable effects on our immune system to fight off disease.
- Stop drinking alcohol or limit to 4 oz of red wine per night (begun after you begin your meal).
- Avoid foods that may have stored hormones or pesticides.
- Shed those extra pounds and work hard to keep them off and maintain your goal weight.
- Tamoxifen and Raloxifene are in ongoing studies evaluating their role in prevention of breast cancer.
- BE MINDFUL! Our bodies are given a special power to heal and take the opportunity each day to invoke that. Some ways that you can do this is:
- Prayer
- Meditation
- Yoga
- Laughter
- Talking
- Sharing
- Loving
Anything that you can do to enhance your joy of life and relieve your stress to give back your body its maximum power to heal itself.