How To Prevent Cancer - Follow These Five Simple Rules.

If you know what the causes are, you can become aware of how to prevent cancer.
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Cancer is such a scary disease – a lingering, painful death.

The orthodox treatment for cancer is even scarier, with awful side effects – and they’re not guaranteed to succeed, anyway.

Often they just make the cancer sufferer’s last months worse.

So nobody wants to get it.

Read on to find how to prevent cancer.


Here are 5 simple steps you can take to reduce your chances of getting cancer. And remember there is fantastic hope for cancer patients too. Don't ever give up.


(1) The most obvious thing is to give up smoking.

If you don’t smoke: great, you have much less risk of cancer than smokers. You also have less risk of heart disease and stroke. But remember that secondary smoke is also bad for you, so avoid places where others smoke.

If you do smoke, this is your chance to save your life – ½ of all regular smokers will die of the habit – from lung cancer, other cancers, stroke, etc. The sooner you give it up the better for your health.

Smoking is the best known of all causes of cancer. Smokers have between 1200% and 2000% greater risk of lung cancer than non-smokers, as well as a greater risk of other types of cancer. Lung cancer has the lowest survival rate of all cancers. It causes about a quarter of all cancer deaths.

By the way, if you smoke, drinking alcohol as well increases your risk of cancer even more.

I know it isn’t easy to give it up, even when you know what it’s doing to your health. Luckily there is plenty of support out there for people who need help to break the habit. Many people have found hypnosis or acupuncture helpful. There are prescription drugs available to help you over the physical addiction. Think twice before using these as they can have some pretty nasty side effects.

The good news is that you will start to notice the benefits of giving up straight away – you’ll feel much healthier within days. Quitters have a 70% better chance of surviving lung cancer. 10 years after giving up smoking, your risk of getting lung cancer is half that of someone who still smokes.


(2) Diet: eat more vegetables.

Bowel cancer is the third commonest cancer after lung cancer and breast cancer, and second commonest cause of cancer death.

Are there specific causes of cancer of the bowel? There are several ways you can reduce your risk of bowel cancer.

The best way on how to prevent cancer is to eat lots of vegetables and fresh fruit every day. These contain many nutrients that help to protect your body from ill health.

In particular, cabbage, broccoli, Brussels sprouts and cauliflower contain isothiocyanates, which appear to have a protective effect against cancers.

Vegetables of the onion family are also thought to protect the gut against cancer. That means onions, shallots, leeks and garlic.

There’s an old saying that if you don’t like the smell of leeks, eat onions; then you won’t smell the leeks. If you don’t like the smell of onions, eat garlic and you won’t smell the onions any more!

Seriously, it’s worth getting used to the smell and the taste – these vegetables have so many health benefits.


(3) Diet: reduce saturated fats

Again, though it may not be one of the causes of cancer, a diet high in saturated fats has been linked to incidence of bowel cancer, and to other forms of cancer.

For cancer prevention reduce the risk by cutting down on red meat, processed food and fatty foods.


(4) Exercise more.

It has been shown in many studies that exercise helps to reduce the risk of several types of cancer, particularly bowel cancer and breast cancer.

Regular exercise could be as little as half an hour's physical activity a day, five days a week. It doesn’t matter what sort of exercise you do, as long as it’s enough to leave you feeling warm and slightly out of breath. Brisk walking is great exercise, but even housework counts, as long as you do it actively enough.


(5) Lose weight.

As this is about how to prevent cancer - what has being overweight got to do with it. Being overweight may not be one of the causes of cancer, but it doesn’t help either.

Studies have shown over and over again that being overweight puts you more at risk of many serious health problems – including many types of cancer.

Our bodies are just not designed to carry more than a few pounds of extra fat. It places a strain on your heart, your circulation and your joints. All your organs have to work harder to maintain a larger body.

If you follow tips (2) to (3) above, chances are you are going to start losing any excess weight. If you want help to lose weight, see my healthy weight loss tips.


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