Cancer & Burned Meat
Cancer prevention continued - Tip #4 Don't burn your meats. The high temperature required to grill meat (and broil and fry, for that matter) creates compounds called heterocyclic amines that are linked to cancer. These compounds may damage DNA enough to spur the growth of tumors in the colon, breast, prostate, and lymph cells. One University of Minnesota study found that eating charred meat regularly can increase pancreatic cancer risk by up to 60 percent. #Cancer #health
Non-Stick Cookware & Cancer
Cancer prevention continued - Tip #3 Avoid non-stick cookware. When heated, non-stick cookware becomes a source of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a long-chain perfluorinated chemical linked to a range of health problems, including thyroid disease, infertility in women, and organ damage and developmental and reproductive problems in lab animals. Manufacturers' labels often warn consumers to avoid high heat when cooking on Teflon. But EWG-commissioned tests conducted in 2003 sh
Cancer & Pesticides
Cancer prevention continued - Tip #2 Many pesticides and herbicides are potentially carcinogenic, and you may be exposed to them when you eat conventionally grown produce and animal products. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) considers 60 percent of herbicides, 90 percent of fungicides, and 30 percent of insecticides to be carcinogenic. It is not a coincidence that , farming communities have higher rates of leukemia, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, and soft
Slash Your Risk OF Cancer
In many cases, what is known about cancer prevention is still evolving. However, it's well accepted that your chances of developing cancer are affected by the lifestyle choices you make. Tip: If you want to slash your risk of cancer, it's essential that you spend adequate time in the sun or if that's not possible supplement with proper amounts of vitamin D3. It's been definitively proven using data from more than 100 countries that the higher vitamin D, the lower the incidenc
