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- $Title{Ways to Prevent Cancer}
- $Subject{cancer prevention health Community Social lifestyle lifestyles
- physicals checkups exercise diet high fiber low fat smoking colon
- breast prostate rectal skin lung cancers neoplasm neoplasms smoke}
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- The Effects of Smoking*0007301.scf}
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- Ways to Prevent Cancer
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- QUESTION: Your advice is always so welcome in our home, for it always rings
- true. I know many people write to you to ask about cures for disease, but we
- think your emphasis on prevention is most important. Now if you could discuss
- ways to prevent cancer, you would be doing everyone a service.
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- ANSWER: If ever I wished I had a simple and complete answer for a question,
- this would be the one. The problem is that there are so many cancers, so many
- causes, that there are no simple answers. The basic rules of good health are
- always a fine starting point, and must be emphasized over and over again, for
- they help prevent illness of all kinds. Regular physical checkups, exercise
- and diet are always in order. And the researchers have given us some specific
- tips that may be useful. Foods high in fiber are not merely the latest fad,
- but help to lower the risk of colon cancer. Keep the fat content in your diet
- low to reduce risks of breast, prostate colon and rectal cancer. Avoid
- unnecessary X-rays, but be quick to permit those that are important for
- diagnosis, recommended by your physician. There are so many risk factors that
- exist in the workplace that you must become knowledgeable about the materials
- that you come in contact with, and the safe procedures that must be used in
- handling them. Excessive exposure to the harmful rays of the sun may lead to
- skin cancer, so keep covered or use the appropriate sun screens when out in
- the open. The evidence for the harm that smoking does is dramatic, and our
- new turn to a no smoking society is one that may prevent thousands of needless
- cases of lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. There may be many more
- such tips, each directed at a specific cancer, but the call for moderation in
- all things, which I call for here on frequent occasions, must still be amongst
- the most valuable tips one can offer to prevent cancer, and in fact all
- disease. One day, I hope, I will be able to answer your question more
- directly, but until then, give these tips a try.
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- The material contained here is "FOR INFORMATION ONLY" and should not replace
- the counsel and advice of your personal physician. Promptly consulting your
- doctor is the best path to a quick and successful resolution of any medical
- problem.
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