Breast Cancer and Tips for Family

Here's an article that can be helpful with dealing with cancer:

 

The person with the breast cancer is not the only one affected. Family members and friends are also influenced by health changes of a loved one.

Here are some tips to help family and friends cope with a loved one's diagnosis:

• Feel free to ask the doctor questions if you accompany your loved one to his appointments. Write your questions down so you don't forget them.
• Be prepared for changes in your loved one's behavior and mood. Medications, discomforts, and stress can cause your loved one to become depressed, angry, or fatigued.
• Encourage your loved one to be active and independent, as much as possible, to help her regain a sense of self-reliance and confidence.
• Be realistic about your own needs. Be sure you are sleeping enough, eating properly, and taking some time off for yourself. It is hard to offer much help when you are exhausted. If you take care of your needs, it may be easier to meet the needs of your loved one.
• Don't hesitate to ask other family members and friends for help. They will appreciate the opportunity to help.

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Appetite Changes: Managing Chemotherapy Side Effects

Here's some interesting facts and data sheets to help you through chemo side effects - 

Practical tips to help people with cancer make eating easier, stay strong during chemotherapy and manage appetite changes. Read questions to ask your doctor: click here

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Select Foods that is Plant Based

When you eat various foods, vegetables, and fruits, which is plant based. It’s the best cancer preventing food because these type of food keeps on providing us of rich phytochemicals and antioxidants, which helps in making your cell lesser susceptible.

Do you need a proof? In the rural part of China, there’s a lot of incidence of colon, rectal and breast cancers. They are just fractional rates in the reports in USA. In China, veggies are eaten in greater amounts than the meat.

There’s a recommended servings of food as stated by American Cancer Society, which is at least 5-9 for vegetables and fruits a day, however an average Westerners diet are short on that. Just keep on adding vegetables and fruits into your meals, you shouldn’t have to keep on eating Chinese stir fries, you just need to import the ways of the Chinese. Add up vegetables and fruits in the foods your already eating.

Add up peppers, mushrooms, onions, carrots and zucchini into the meatloaf, stew, soup, and chili and pasta sauce. Meanwhile, make use of meat in small portions.

 

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Why a Vegetarian Diet Is Good for Your Health and the Health of the Planet

Here's an interesting article written by Rachael Moeller Gorman concerning eating healthy:

 As a journalist, I’ve been following news on the health benefits of meatless eating for years. Recently I started toying with the idea of shifting toward a meatless diet myself. Some people skip meat for spiritual reasons. Many go vegetarian to help the environment (the United Nations determined recently that livestock is one of the top contributors to the world’s most serious environmental problems, for example). But today, there’s something else driving people—including me—to move toward a plant-based diet: health.

Science is showing that cutting back on meat is healthier for just about everyone, and more and more people are doing just that: today, 3 percent of American adults—over 7 million people—never eat meat, fish or poultry, up from less than 1 percent in 1994. The Meatless Monday campaign—a successful voluntary reduction effort in the U.S. during both World War I and World War II that was relaunched in 2003 at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to help Americans cut down on saturated fat—has become a full-blown movement. Cities like San Francisco have made official Meatless Monday proclamations; public school systems and college dining halls have adopted the philosophy; celebrity chefs like Mario Batali are leading the charge in restaurants. Meatless Monday programs are thriving in countries such as Korea, Brazil, Croatia and Canada. You probably know several people who’ve given up meat—maybe dairy and eggs too—every day of the week. Maybe you’re one of them.

 

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10 tips to cut cancer risk

Here is a great article for tips to reduce the risk of cancer:

January 09, 2007|By Dr. Sanjay Gupta Chief Medical Correspondent

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A smoker in London, England, watches a presentation on how to quit smoking.

The American Cancer Society estimates that more than 560,000 Americans died from cancer-related causes in 2006. Some cancers are preventable, and people can cut their risk by maintaining some positive health steps.

Here are my top 10 tips for avoiding cancer:

1, 2 and 3) Do NOT smoke. If you're one of the more than 40 million American smokers, you need to stop. Smoking is linked to at least three in 10 cancer deaths, according to the American Cancer Society. That's more than 165,000 deaths a year.

4) Stay active. Inactivity and obesity are linked to cancer. Half an hour of exercise a day will significantly help your odds.5) Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. The American Cancer Society recommends at least five servings each day. In general, the most colorful fruits and vegetables have the most nutrients.

6) Limit the amount of red meat and processed meats in your diet, and make sure the meat you do eat is lean.

7) Avoid deep-fat frying. Instead, use low-fat cooking methods like roasting, baking, broiling, steaming or poaching. Also, choose low-fat or non-fat milk and yogurt.

8) Limit your alcohol consumption or avoid alcohol altogether.9) Protect yourself in the sun. Wear sunscreen to limit your exposure to damaging ultraviolet rays.10) Girls should get the HPV vaccine before they are sexually active to help prevent cervical cancer.

 

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How do bees produce the Unique LifeMel honey?

"Zuf Globus Laboratories Ltd." prepares an all natural mixture for controlled feeding of bees based on natural honey and adding extracts of various edible plants [therapeutic herbs] to produce this unique natural honey. The mixture of natural honey together with the edible plants' extract, substitutes the pollen that is available to bees in nature and, from it the bees produce a new type of honey, with therapeutic properties, respective to the types of therapeutic herbs that were incorporated into the feed mixture.

This method enables Zuf Globus to control the precise doses of desired food types with which to feed the bees and, ultimately, produce honeys, whose properties are predesigned yet improved through the synergetic effect of being formed in the bee's body.

 

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How to Cope With Chemo: 5 Tips to Help You Survive Read more: How to Cope With Chemo: 5 Tips to Help You Survive | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_5062209_cope-chemo-tips-survive.html#ixzz1GJHWfnfB

Here's an interesting article for tips for chemo patients:

 

As a survivor, I've had a cocktail of poison dumped into me on many different occasions. It was hellish, to say the least. Medical studies say that happy and positive patients have a much better survival rate than those who are not. If you're looking for better ways to handle your chemo, and ultimately a better chance of beating your cancer, I'd encourage you to try the following tips:

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     Demand -do not ask- demand pills from your doctor.

     Anxiety pills, happy pills, sleeping pills, whatever. Many doctors treat the cancer without a thought as to the mental condition of the patient. I made it through four rounds of chemo before I put my foot down and demanded pills. It made all the difference in the world. Don't make the mistake of waiting.

     You're being dumped with steroids, radiation, chemotherapy, and eight to ten pills to manage their side effects, so what's one more?

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     Eat foods with a strong aroma.

     Many people don't understand that nausea from chemotherapy has very little to do with what's in your stomach. What you eat has very little to do with whether or not you hurl. Soda and crackers keep you from purging about as well as a giant milkshake. Therefore eat whatever you can keep down. You'll be eating like a pregnant woman with the strangest cravings. During my week-long infusions I could eat almost nothing, however during the recovery process in-between infusions I ate smelly foods as much as possible.

     During your treatments, everything tastes bad but your nose remains unaffected. You can 'taste' with your nose to an extent, so maximize this advantage. Chick-fil-a and Pizza worked amazingly well for me.

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