Each morning you pop a multivitamin and feel like you’re doing something good for your overall health, even reducing your cancer risk. Well, think again. A recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine has burst a lot of bubbles for those who’ve been diligently taking a multivitamin every day.
This study, the largest ever conducted on post-menopausal women, revealed that multivitamins may contribute virtually nothing to reducing risk of common cancers, cardiovascular disease, and overall mortality. Darn!
The message? Please make sure that your diet is a healthy one and that you are taking care of yourself through exercising, following a low-fat diet, and avoiding cigarettes and alcohol. (more…)
Hormones are naturally occurring substances in the body that stimulate the growth of hormone sensitive tissues, such as the breast or prostate gland. When cancer arises in breast or prostate tissue, its growth and spread may be caused by the body’s own hormones.
The need for sun safety has become clear over the past 20 years, with studies showing that excessive exposure to the sun can cause skin cancer. Harmful rays from the sun—and from sunlamps and tanning beds—may also cause eye problems, weaken your immune system, and give you unsightly skin spots and wrinkles, or “leathery” skin.
Cancer is a disease which can be of many forms as well as can occur from many causes. There are some cancers which are preventable and some forms of cancer have a good prognosis. One of the numerous forms of cancer is called Mesothelioma and it is preventable.