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An ounce of prevention, steps to avoid cancer

Some do’s and don’ts for helping to avoid and fight cancer.

Your mental state

• Be positive.
• Resolve stress and past traumas.
• Accept yourself and your emotions, including the negative ones.
• Practice meditation, yoga, tai chi or some other form of relaxation.

Your diet

• These vegetables have great cancer-fighting characteristics: beets, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, garlic, kale, leeks and scallions.
• Also good are onions, blueberries, raspberries, cherries, red wine, soy.
• Increase your intake of omega-3s, typically found in fish (herring, trout, sardines, mackerel, halibut) and flax seeds and oils.
• Avoid sugar, white flour, vegetable oils, white rice and non-organic animal fat (meat, eggs, milk, cheese).
• Filter your tap water.

Your activity

• Spend 20 to 30 minutes a day on a physical activity like tennis, swimming or walking.
• Be out in the sun for 20 minutes every day.

And...

• Avoid being surrounded by people who smoke.
• Use cosmetic products that don’t contain parabens or phthalates.
• Use skin-care products without estrogens or placental by-products.
• Use cleaning products without synthetic chemicals.
• Don’t prepare food in a scratched Teflon pan.
• Reduce the influence of cell phones by using a headset consistently.

Source: David Servan-Schreiber, Anticancer