In our super-sized western society, with lots of fast, fat-loaded food available on every corner, obesity has become an established problem.? We know that obesity affects our health - and our children's health - in terms of quality of life and risk for many diseases.? Extra weight overloads the body and all its systems, leading to diabetes, high blood pressure, back pain, higher levels of estrogen, and increased risk for cancer.? The Cancer Advocacy Coalition of Canada believes that many thousand cases of newly diagnosed breast cancer may be prevented if better diets and regular exercise were promoted across the country.
Many of us eat too much animal fat, processed grains and refined sugars.? We avoid vegetables and fruits except as incidental side dishes.? We line up for fried foods and guzzle down sweet drinks so often that it seems normal.? Once we're loaded down with calories from this kind of diet, we don't burn it off, or use our bodies with healthy exercise.? Instead, we watch television and stare at computers or other small screens.? We drink more alcohol that we should and probably don't keep count of how many ounces of alcoholic calories we consume in a week or a month.? All this adds up to lack of good health awareness and increased risk for breast, colon, uterus, kidney and esophageal cancers.
What would it take - short of being diagnosed with breast cancer (or any cancer) for us to come to grips with our hazardous health habits?? What would it take for us to demand better education of our families and society about the effect of diet and inactivity on health?? The national and personal cost of cancer - any type of cancer - is very high.? What is needed, to get the simple message out?
If you are slim, stay that way, and keep active.? Eat carefully - your food and drink choices shape your health.? If you are carrying extra pounds, get help from your doctor to lose weight and consult a nutritionist to get a proper diet plan.? Every extra pound on your body stores hormones that can fuel breast tumors.? Even after menopause, when hormone levels fall - your extra fat tissue holds enough estrogen to cause concern.
So drop it. Drop the extra weight.? Get off the couch, out of the easy chair, hit the jogging trail or gym, and learn how to eat the anticancer diet.? Prevention is worth the work it takes to spare yourself a cancer journey.
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