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Everyone knows how bad smoking is for your insides but does everyone know how ugly smoking can make your outsides?
Health.com has provided ways that smoking un-beautifies yourself:
* Baggy Eyes…4 times more likely to feel sleepy and it shows
* Psoriasis- 60% higher chance
* Kiss a dazzling smile goodbye! Nicotine stains teeth
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Amanda Bennet lost her husband of 20 years to a grueling battle with kidney cancer December 14, 2007. Bennet’s husband, Terence Bryan Foley, fought for seven years, and had been told several times that he was going to die, yet somehow made it through. Bennet and her husband were forced to make several difficult decisions throughout the seven years, and every choice they made was made to save Terence’s life regardless of the price. They had “robust” medical insurance, which allowed them to keep on fighting. Bennet says, “We didn’t have to think about money, allocation of medical resources, the struggles of roughly 46 million uninsured Americans, or the impact on corporate bottom lines.”
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Everyday women read, see or hear about myths that involve breast cancer. We are here to straighten out the truth from the false.
Health.com has provided 10 myths linked to breast cancer:
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No one has actually done the research needed to determine how many people actually have lactose intolerance. Lactose intolerance makes it difficult for people to digest milk, cheese, and yogurt, and many Americans think they have lactose intolerance and in turn cut out dairy products from their diets. According to experts, “no one really knows whether they are damaging their health” by avoiding these products, reports Maggie Fox from Reuters.
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According to researchers, extract of bitter melon, a nutritional supplement, might help shield women from breast cancer. Steven Reinberg from HealthDay.com reports, “Bitter melon is a common vegetable in India, China and South America, and its extract is used in folk remedies for diabetes because of its blood-sugar lowering capabilities.”
Lead researcher Ratna Ray said, “When we used the extract from that melon, we saw that it kills the breast cancer cells.”
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A new study shows that tests that look for tumor DNA in the blood might help doctors personalize your cancer treatment, states Megan Johnson from U.S. News & World Report. Researchers “identified defects in the genetic code of colorectal and breast cancer samples. The defects functioned as genetic fingerprints called biomarkers that are unique to each individual’s cancer,” reports Johnson.
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Thanks to early screenings and aggressive treatments, women are surviving breast cancer more than ever before. But women must question why the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force now recommends that women don’t need to get regular mammograms before the age of 50, limit screenings to every other year and that self exams aren’t necessary.
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A new report released from the Nurses’ Health Study has stated that taking one aspirin tablet every other day can be highly beneficial for breast cancer survivors. Dr. Bernadine Healy reports, “The long-term, low-dose aspirin program was initiated a year or more after the cancer diagnosis as an add-on to treatment, not as a substitute for it, to control the fate of tumor cells silently left behind.”
The study began in 1976 and carried on until 2006; it involved 4,164 breast cancer survivors and was focused on their aspirin use. Aspirin seems to be beneficial for breast cancer survivors because it interferes with the spreading of cancer; “The power to spread is the power to kill,” says Healy. The women who took aspirin on a regular basis were 71% less likely to have a fatal recurrence of breast cancer compared to those who were taking little or no aspirin.
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On or about August 27, 2002 I awoke in the morning and went to work as usual. I did not know that my world as I knew it was about to change irrevocably. On a subliminal basis I knew that I had cancer of the soul. My marriage was in name only, my family dissipated, my work was my passion. I did not understand that in a few hours, a Kafkaesque moment, I would turn yellow and the cancer in my soul would become the cancer in my pancreas. That was then — now I am a 7 year survivor of a cancer that few get to tell about.
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Who isn’t looking to avoid cancer these days? A crucial tactic for skipping out on cancer altogether is by applying an anti-cancer diet to your regime. The American Cancer Society recommends eating at least five servings of fruits and veggies a day and eating the right amount of food to keep a healthy weight.
According to EverydayHealth.com researchers have found that that particular foods help fend off cancer better than others:
* Garlic- eat one clove per day
* Berries- extremely high in antioxidants
* Tomatoes- high in lycopene
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Many people use water purification systems at home, but do they know why they use them? Is it just because their family members or neighbors do? Is filtering our water necessary? According to the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) 90% of the water supply in the US is safe to drink from tap. But that 10% could have…
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