Healthy Eating for Cancer Prevention

If you had to pick one way to reduce your risk of getting cancer, it would be not smoking cigarettes. But what if you’re not a smoker? What’s the next best step for you? Well, according to a report from a recent cancer meeting, you should watch your diet. Meals consisting of fruits and vegetables and soy are excellent defense. Work at the University of California Los Angeles has isolated two chemicals. One called dindolemethane or DIM and another called, isoflavone, that’s found in vegetables and soy, that can reduce the production of dangerous proteins that can lead to cancer. The bottom line? You don’t have to worry about chemical’s names. Just remember this. Eat plenty of fruits and vegetables. That’s what’s going to make a real big difference. If you follow it, it will work out for you. For more information, click onto www.MyMedicalReports.com.

Lung Cancer in Non-Smokers

The death of actress Dana Reeve in 2006 gained a great deal of attention, not just because she was the widow of Christopher Reeve, who played Superman and was paralyzed from a horse-back riding injury, but because Dana Reeve died of lung cancer and she was not a smoker. This is a very important point because this is a study which really has looked at smoking and non-smoking and found that yes, certain people can develop lung cancer, even if they don’t smoke. Now, I want to stress a point. Far and away, cigarette smoking is the greatest risk for lung cancer. That being said, there are people who have a gene which increases their risk of lung cancer, even if they don’t smoke. The bottom line is, you want to get tested if necessary, if you have the gene in your family. But, don’t smoke anyway because that would still increase the risk above the regular average.