Breast cancer is one of the top dangers to women’s health in developed countries today. Unlike HIV, the other killer rising to epidemic proportions, cancer is not an infection – it is not transmitted from one person to another, but still manages to wipe out millions every year. Breast cancer, however, has a lot of specific causes which need to be charted and handled through lifestyle and diet changes in order to prevent the disease from occurring, spreading or recurring.

1. Toxic foods. Food and oxygen give life, right? True, but how many people tell you that the wrong food – without enough antioxidants – can actually kill you? Too many free radicals or free oxygen atoms in the body are carcinogenic, and adding cigarettes, vehicular pollution, alcohol or drugs to the mix makes it even more lethal. Make sure to eat fruits, drink green tea, minimize consumption of fatty and dehydrating foods, and keep your diet rich in anti-oxidants.
2. Trace nutrient deficiencies. Vitamins and minerals, though required in very small amounts to keep the body functioning normally, are still vitally important to keep your metabolism in shape. Overloading on empty calories without ingesting the required trace nutrients can absolutely destroy your body if done regularly.
3. Electromagnetic radiation. We live in an age where exposure to electromagnetic radiation is inevitable. But all electromagnetic radiation, whether from your television, cellphone or microwave oven – can generate free radicals in your body that cause havoc and lead to breast cancer.
4. Mental Stress. Stressing out is the worst thing you can do to your body. Stress produces an excess of the fight-or-flight hormones, adrenaline and noradrenaline. These keep the blood flowing to your arms and legs – away from your vital organs. Normal metabolic processes like respiration and digestion, therefore, are severely hampered, resulting in the origin or continued growth of cancer.
5. Cosmetics. Shampoos, makeup, powder, shaving products, skincare products… all these have been linked to cancer in one way or another. Some boost oestrogen levels, causing heightened carcinogen levels, while most are made from coal tar – carbon itself is a carcinogen. So to protect yourself from cancer, minimize your use of cosmetics of all kinds.

Once cancer takes root, there is really no known way out – even the standard treatment of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy has fairly dubious success rates in the later stages. So maintain a healthy lifestyle and take care of your body to ensure that cancer has no way to reach you.

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