It is the start of week 3 for the annual Forever Fit Contest...you are almost half way there! How are you doing?
If you are staying on track, keep it up! If you are struggling to keep up or have fallen off the wagon completely, get your booty back up!!! Remember that this is a lifestyle change, not just a weight loss challenge... which means that you are allowed to mess up and most of you WILL. Dust yourself off and keep on going! So what, you had a doughnut... or a couple dozen. Don't give up!
Read the following information and think about how you can get/stay healthy and eliminate some of these risk factors from your life.
Cancer is all around us. It is surprising that we have control over most of the risk factors.
According to the book Staying Healthy With Nutrition, here are 11 Key Cancer Risk Factors.
1. Smoking
2. Dietary excesses - Fats (mainly saturated oils, fried polyunsaturated oils, and cholesterol), protein, and obesity (calories).3. Undernutrition - Deficient fiber and nutrients such as vitamins C and E, beta-carotene, and selenium.
4. Occupational chemicals - In such high-risk fields as farm work, work in plastic manufacturing plants and so on.
5. Food chemicals - Pesticides, additives and hormones.
6. Air and water pollution
7. Excess sunlight and radiation
8. Certain pharmaceutical drugs - Estrogen, metronidazole (Flagyl), lindane (Kwell), or griseofulvin.
9. Alcohol
10. Viruses
11. Psychological influences - Such as personal changes, loss of loved one, grief and divorce.
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