Cancer is a preventable lifestyle disease yet every year cancer claims tens of billions of human lives with drug treatment costing hundreds of billions. Despite enormous investment in cancer treatment most cancer therapies are highly toxic, ineffective and unaffordable to greater than 80% of the world population (1). More attention needs to be paid to lifestyle.
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Posted on Tue, 9 Mar 10
Health and wellbeing may enhance sexuality
Sexual activity has been associated with health and longevity and a new report has found that sexuality (sexual activity and quality of sexual life) may be enhanced by a healthy lifestyle.
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Posted on Wed, 16 Sep 09
A healthy lifestyle reduces breast cancer risk
Lifestyle change may significantly reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence in breast cancer survivors, a major concern in these women. It has been found that obese women have a 50% increased risk for developing a secondary primary breast cancer, while those who consumed 7 or more alcoholic drinks per week had a 90% increased risk and smokers had a 120% increased risk of cancer reoccurrence (1).
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Posted on Wed, 12 Aug 09
Healthy living is the best life insurance
Adopting just a couple of healthy lifestyle behaviours may reduce your risk of major chronic disease by 80%. A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine August 2009 reports that just 4 key behaviours (1) a healthy body weight, (2) not smoking, (3) eating a healthy diet and (4) regular exercise are the major determinants of whether or not you will suffer type 2 diabetes mellitus, heart attack, stroke or cancer.
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Posted on Fri, 7 Aug 09
Secrets to a long and healthy life
The major causes of premature death and disease are due to preventable risk factors. To find out exactly which risk factors resulted in the highest number of early deaths a group from Harvard Medical School and their international colleagues have produced a large scale analysis with some striking findings.
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Posted on Thu, 18 Jun 09
Most people don't know the road to wellness
A research group from University College London and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, has found that an alarming number of people do not know that lifestyle factors contribute to two of the most prevalent and life threatening diseases; cardiovascular disease and cancer. In a large survey it was found that only 9% and 2% of people could identify four lifestyle risk factors for heart disease and cancer respectively. In fact the report found that, 1 in 10 people could not identify any risk factors at all [1].
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