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Get Your Teen Daughters Moving Now to Prevent Breast Cancer Later
It turns out that all the running, walking and aerobics I did throughout my teen years may actually help protect me from developing breast cancer now that I'm older.While most studies have found that middle-aged woman should exercise to reduce their ...
BPA in Plastic Alters Genes in Breast Cells
By now I hope most of you have thrown away your refillable, polycarbonate plastic water bottles. You know the ones that were almost too good to be true when they hit the market--hard and clear like glass, but don't shatter. However, more and more r...
You Don't Have to Break the Bank to Eat Healthy
Some people think that eating healthy is too expensive so they continue consuming a nutrient-starved diet filled with over-processed, empty-calorie foods. Well, those people no longer can use that as an excuse for poor eating.A recent study publishe...
10 Superfoods to Fight Inflammation
While inflammation is the body's healthy response to fight off foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruses, many people today are walking around with an unhealthy dose of chronic, low-level inflammation. If you are overweight, eat poorly, rarely e...
Questioning Mammograms & Assessing the Risks
While the medical community touts the effectiveness and cost efficiency of mammograms, the risks are rarely mentioned. Alternative Medicine recently raised some thought-provoking issues about this standard breast cancer screening procedure. Many wom...
Super Veggie May Protect Against Skin Cancer
Fruit extracts from blueberries, cranberries, Goji berries and pomegranates are now common ingredients in skincare products. However, it's only a matter of time when a broccoli extract will be making its topical debut as a powerful weapon against ski...
The Troubling Rise of Precocious Puberty
The other night over dinner with girlfriends one of them asked me why I give my two-year-old daughter milk and meat free of hormones--usually organic. One of the reasons I mentioned was that it might help prevent the start of early puberty. Suddenly,...
Organic Produce Has More Cancer Fighting Power
Cancer prevention is the latest reason to start eating organic. Recent studies suggest that in addition to containing more nutrients, organic produce also offer 30 times more of a cancer-fighting plant compound called salvesterols.This recently ident...
Preventing Cancer with Vitamin D
The other day my husband and I found out that the dark mole on his back is melanoma. So while he goes off to enjoy life, I go online to research skin cancer. Discovering that melanoma is the deadliest of all forms of cancer because it spreads so quic...
Healthy Nail Polish Promotes Support for the Cure
The other day Nubar, a leading manufacturer of innovative nontoxic nail polish, sent me their new Support for the Cure Collection, which the company is giving a portion of its sales toward cancer research, education and outreach.The four pack of nail...
Beauty Products Going Paraben-Free
As consumers have become better educated on the possible dangers of parabens--synthetic toxic preservatives found in cosmetics and personal care products--skincare companies are taking note and responding to their customers' demand for paraben-free p...
An Apple Peel A Day May Keep Cancer Away
Eating an apple a day can do more than keep the doctor away. Researchers at Cornell University have identified a dozen compounds called triterpenoids contained in apple peels that either inhibit or kill cancer cells in laboratory cultures.Previous st...
The ABCs of Checking for Skin Cancer
For us fair-skinned, frequently burned, sun-loving people, some goods news came out today on how drinking coffee--or any beverage containing caffeine--coupled with regular exercise may prevent skin cancer. This made my day since I drink a cup of gree...
Fire Up the Grill, but Hold the Carcinogens
My husband thinks he's the king of grilling with his new Weber charcoal grill. To be honest, he could go toe-to-toe with Bobby Flay. He's that good.However, he's married to a woman who buys fresh, organic (and whenever possible local) fruits and vegg...
Grass-Fed Cows Produce Healthier Milk
We've all heard the milk campaign's slogan that it does a body good, but not all milk is created equal. Milk from grass-fed cows is far superior for the body than the beverage that comes from grain-fed cows. The milk from pasture-raised cows, specifi...
Reclaim Your Health By Restoring Your Inner Ecological System
Several months ago I ordered the book, The Body Ecology Dietby Donna Gates, just because I saw a picture of the author who is about 60 years old, but looks 40. I figured if Gates looks that good for her age, she must be doing something right, and I w...
Minimizing Sun Damage Naturally After the Burn
I'm a fair-skinned redhead with a history of too much sun exposure. I remember peeling the burned skin on my young body as a kid after spending summers in our backyard pool. You would think that I'd learn my lesson by the time I was a sophomore in co...
Preventing Cancer, Healing Cancer
When I think of cancer at least a dozen people come to mind, including friends, former colleagues and family members. More than half of them battled breast cancer. Many are survivors. Others weren't as fortunate. Three of them were in their early 30s...
