10 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer in Women
The odds of getting breast cancer (the disease women fear most) are 1 out of every 8 women. And In spite of the millions of dollars spent on research and new drugs in the past decades, the overall odds have stayed the same. But there are 10 natural ways to prevent breast cancer.
Evidence clearly shows a healthy lifestyle and a breast cancer prevention diet can significantly reduce your risk. However, to prevent breast cancer naturally, you need to take specific actions.
The 10 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer
Natural breast cancer prevention requires making some important healthy lifestyle changes. These ten ways to prevent breast cancer have been shown to greatly improve your odds:
These ten ways to prevent breast cancer can also help you stay healthy, develop a strong immune system and reduce your risk of colds, flues, viruses and many degenerative diseases.
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Evidence clearly shows a healthy lifestyle and a breast cancer prevention diet can significantly reduce your risk. However, to prevent breast cancer naturally, you need to take specific actions.
The 10 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer
Natural breast cancer prevention requires making some important healthy lifestyle changes. These ten ways to prevent breast cancer have been shown to greatly improve your odds:
- Be physically active every day. Studies show women who exercise for at least 30 minutes a day have a 20-40% lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who are inactive.
- Eat a cancer prevention diet. To prevent breast cancer, eat a super healthy diet. Increase your phytonutrients (plant nutrients) by eating plenty of highly nutritious vegetables, fruits, whole grains, seeds, nuts and beans, with a focus on the cancer prevention foods below.
- High fiber foods help reduce cancer-causing forms of estrogen in your bloodstream and can decrease breast cancer risk up to 54%. Healthy high fiber food include fresh fruits, whole grains, beans and vegetables rich in carotenoid, flavonoid and cruciferous phytonutrients.
- Soybeans and healthy soy products such as tofu, tempeh and miso have been shown to reduce the risk of breast cancer. But avoid highly sweetened and refined soy products, such as soymilk and soy oils.
- Allium vegetables, like garlic, onions and leeks, help neutralize cancer-causing free radicals and prevent cancer cells from multiplying. They’re among the best foods to eat to prevent breast cancer. For optimum benefits, eat allium foods raw as often as possible.
- Reach and maintain a healthy weight. Studies show that excess weight is a breast cancer risk factor. But research also shows the risk is mainly related to the high glycemic sweets, sugary drinks and other highly refined carbohydrates, which tend to lead to being overweight.
- Eliminate or limit alcohol consumption. Studies show people who drink two or more alcoholic beverages a day develop breast cancer at nearly twice the rate as those who drink no alcohol at all. And the risk of breast cancer increases with each additional drink.
- Don't smoke or breathe in smoke. Women who smoke or are constantly exposed to second-hand smoke are up to 40% more likely to develop breast cancer. But quitting rapidly improves your statistics.
- Eliminate the high glycemic foods. Eating a healthy low glycemic diet, by choosing low glycemic foods from the glycemic index list of foods can help you to choose good quality fats, prevent insulin resistance and reach and maintain your healthiest weight.
- Decrease fat intake and eat healthy fats. A diet high in fat, especially trans fat, is linked to a higher rate of breast cancer. But monounsaturated and fish oils are linked to lower rates of breast cancer. Reduce overall fat to 25-30% of calories. Eliminate trans fat, decrease saturated fats and increase your intake of olive oil and omega 3 fish oil.
- Reduce your exposure to carcinogens. Avoid cancer-causing foods, unnecessary x-rays, taking hormone replacement therapy, inhaling or physical contact with insecticides, herbicides or other carcinogens.
- Have children early and breastfeed. Studies suggest that time spent in pregnancy and breastfeeding, especially before the age of 30, decreases your risk of breast cancer.
- Take high quality nutritional supplements. To prevent breast cancer and other diseases you need supplements that include all the essential vitamins and minerals. Particularly helpful for reducing your risk of breast cancer are vitamins A, D, E, cruciferous and omega 3 fish oil.
These ten ways to prevent breast cancer can also help you stay healthy, develop a strong immune system and reduce your risk of colds, flues, viruses and many degenerative diseases.
Find out how to subscribe to my free Natural Health Newsletter.
Click here for the Site Map.
Articles you might also enjoy:
How to Lose Weight Fast and Safe
Foods High in Fiber & Fiber Rich Foods
Omega 3 Fish Oil Benefits for Breast Cancer
Broccoli Calories, Nutrients and Health Benefits
To subscribe to the Natural Health Newsletter, just enter your email address in the subscribe box at the bottom of this page.
© Copyright by Moss Greene. All Rights Reserved.
Note: The information contained on this website is not intended to be prescriptive. Any attempt to diagnose or treat an illness should come under the direction of a physician who is familiar with nutritional therapy.
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