Cancer is very dangerous, you should know your way to cancer prevention is always healthy. Many deaths in the world is caused by cancer. According to the Parkway Cancer Center, of the total 58 million deaths worldwide in 2005, cancer was the cause of 7.6 million deaths (approximately 13% of all deaths). This is quite serious because it can occur in people with a family history of cancer sufferers, they try various ways to avoid this disease.
If you want the cancer does not happen to you, the following is a summarized way the Cancer Prevention of Women's Day, among others:
1. Maintain a healthy weight
Recent research shows that being overweight can increase the risk of colon cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, cancer of the esophagus (esophageal cancer), endometrial cancer (cancer outside the uterine tissue), and post-menopausal breast cancer.BMI or Body Mass Index is a calculation to determine the ideal weight by comparing the amount of weight and height.
A healthy person has a BMI of 18.5 to 24.9 number. While the risk of cancer found in people with a BMI of 23 or more amount. Example of calculation of BMI, weight = 55 kg and TB = 165 cm, then BMI = (55) / (1.65) * (1.65) = 20.2.
2. Walk 10 Minutes Every Day
Reports from the University of California study showed that walking 10 minutes a day can lower the risk of breast cancer. In the study found, women who perform 45-60 minutes of exercise such as brisk walking or cycling for as long as at least five times a week can increase the body's protection against breast cancer or colon cancer.
3. Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
Consumption of fruit and vegetables not only make you become an ideal weight, but eating colorful fruits and vegetables can lower cancer risk.
"The habit is often done in a healthy diet can also reduce the risk of esophageal cancer, including lung, mouth, esophagus, stomach, and colon cancer," said Colleen Doyle, RD, Director of Nutrition and Physical Activity for the ACS.
4. Avoid smoking and Smoke Inhalation
As many as 87% of deaths for lung cancer caused by smoking.About ten years after you quit smoking, lung cancer risk is reduced at least by half, so does the risk of cancers of the mouth, bladder, and kidney cancer is greatly reduced, clear Norman Edelman, MD, chief medical officer of the American Lung Association. If you are not a smoker, then you should also stay away from people who are smoking, the smoke inhaled by smokers have the same effect.
5. Avoid Alcohol
Alcohol increases your risk of developing oral cancer, oral cavity cancer (larynx), esophagus, liver, and breast. Although the drink just a little, but can have a major impact on health. Recorded in the study, women who drank alcohol during the week associated with an increased risk of breast cancer.
