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Breast Cancer Risks

Posted by Health articles on May 1st, 2009

Despite progress of medical science, breast cancer continues its destructive effects in all social class, poor and rich, black and white. It is estimated that breast cancer will affects one woman in eight will develop cancer during their lifetime. With around 42 000 new cases each year, this disease is a real trouble in the feminine world; cancer is the most feared disease in the 21st century. However, if curing breast cancer is hypothetic, its prevention can be different; there are steps you can take to reduce the risk of its development or its reoccurrence (if you are already a victim):

Avoid Hormone therapy for menopause symptoms – menopause itself is not a disease, it is a natural hormonal change in your body that often occurs after age 45; but some hormonal treatment against the symptoms of menopause can have serious effects on your health. Long-term use of menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) may lead to breast cancer. According to WHO (world Health Organization), MHT is a risk factor for breast cancer especially when taken for more than 5 years. In addition, Studies show that hormone therapy can also increase the risk of colorectal cancer.

Practice Prolonged Breastfeeding – it can sound old fashion, but studies have showed that prolonged breastfeeding reduces considerably the risk of developing breast cancer. Breastfeeding provides many benefits in the physical and mental development of the infant. By breastfeeding you increase the chance of your infant to be healthy, and decrease your risk of developing breast cancer. It’s not archaic to breastfeed; if times have changed, the causes leading to breast cancer remain the same, reduce your risk of breast cancer by breastfeeding your child.

Avoid contraceptive containing estrogen – as far as possible, use birth control (contraceptive) medications that do not contain synthetic estrogen hormones. In some women, estrogen tends to block the ovarian activity, and involves in the development of breast cancer or cancer of the uterus.

Treat Obesity – obesity (being overweight) increase the risk of breast cancer. Being overweight, especially after menopause, is associated with carcinogenesis of the normal cells of the breast. This risk is higher among women with high levels of estrogen (hormone). It is estimated that the fight against obesity could prevent more than 10,000 new cases of breast cancer per year. Therefore, eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly.

Natural Cancer Treatments

Posted by admin on April 29th, 2009

One of the most interesting things about modern medicine is the road of pharmaceuticals and surgery that we have taken. Have you ever considered that there might be alternative pathways of development?

To illustrate my point, I’m going to bring up a debate with ancient origins. At some point in ancient medicine there was a split. At the time of that split, there were two camps that emerged.
One camp believed in the concept of mechanism. That is that every part of the body can be broken down and understood in terms of simple mechanics or simple biological understandings.
Can you guess what the other camp believed? They believed in something that was called “Vitalism”. In the Vitalist camp was the idea that the body is regulated by an intelligent force that was capable of healing the body. This camp believed in working with the body and working with nature.

Later, the mechanists found that they could extract the ‘active’ ingredients in plants, synthesize them in a laboratory and then patent the synthesized chemical structure – which would be slightly altered in the process so that it was no longer the ‘natural’ chemical that could not be patented.

So, in the end, the mechanists stole from the vitalist camp. So, does that mean the vitalists won the fight in the end? Well, not really because the mechanists are still the predominant medical establishment today.
The vitalists are still around but they have been forced in to roles and professions that are more or less subservient to the mechanists.
But these natural remedies that come from plants in their natural form in nature still exists today. They use them for natural cancer treatments that work.
They use them to treat ailments other than cancer too. You have probably heard of some of them.
Next, learn more about natural cancer treatments that work.
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