Cancer Risk Factors 10 Things Women Should Keep in Mind - All ...

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More and more women are being diagnosed with breast cancer, ovarian cancer, cervical cancer and uterine cancer. Most people reading this probably either know someone who has had cancer or had cancer themselves.
Most women do not realize that there are dangerous factors in their everyday modern lives that increase cancer risk.
Knowledge is power. Put a stop to some common choices and habits and you could save your own life. Instead of getting chemotherapy, surgery, radiation for breast cancer, you could be out hiking in nature or taking a nice long nap, some of the simple, yet powerful ways you can have a chance at a cancer free life.
1. Too Much Stress/Not Enough Sleep
The demands of our lives with increased stress, little time to relax and not enough sleep leads to increased levels of stress hormones which lower our immune response and raise our blood sugar. High cortisol and high blood sugar increases cancer risk.
2. Too Much Body Fat
More and more teens and women are overweight and overfat. Fat cells produce hormones and also produce high levels of inflammation. Both elevated hormone levels and high inflammation increase risk of cancer.
3. Hormone Prescription Drugs
We are manipulating our normal physiology with birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy, often increasing our exposure to cancer stimulating, proliferative hormones.
4. Chemicals in Our Food
Many pesticides and herbicides as well growth stimulating feed additives end up in our food and in our bodies, increasing hormone stimulation and setting the stage for increased cancer risk.
5. Chemicals in Body Care Products and Cosmetics
Most commercial body care products and cosmetics are preserved with chemicals called parabens. Many of the colorings and lathering agents are also potentially carcinogenic. Over the course of women?s lives, there is daily exposure to these chemicals which are absorbed into the body through the skin increasing cancer risk. In Europe, many of these chemicals are banned from use.
6. Fewer and Later Pregnancies
Women now delay pregnancy until later in life and have fewer children. This means more lifetime exposure to estrogen and an increased risk of cancer. In modern life many women choose not to have children at all, giving them no natural break from estrogen exposure that has been part of women?s health history for centuries.
7. Less Breastfeeding
Similarly, many women choose not to breastfeed at all or breastfeed for only a short period of time, rather than the typical 18-24 months. And of course women who never have children, also never breastfeed. This means there is no break from menstruation and hormone stimulation which can increase cancer risk.
8. Not Enough Physical Activity and Exercise
Modern life is sedentary. Sitting in our cars, sitting at our jobs, sitting in school, sitting in front of a computer or a television, surfing the web and texting.
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