Want to cut your risk of getting cancer? Try these three easy steps!
Want to butt out? See www.quitsmokingjournals.com – full of great tips like massaging your ears to cull cravings, or calling cigarettes “sickerettes”. plus stories from ex-smokers with lung cancer.
More vegies, less meat. More than 540g of red meat per week increases the risk of colorectal cancer by 35 per cent, a study of nearly half a million people found recently.
Professor Ian Olver from the Cancer Council Australia says, “Meat three or four times a week – about 120g or the size of your palm – is fine provided the cuts are lean. Processed meats such as ham, bacon and salami should be special occasion foods though.”
Lose five kilos. “More than a third of cancers of the lining of the uterus [endometrial cancers] are linked to obesity/overweight,” says Professor Olver.
Not to mention over a third of oesophageal cancers and quarter of kidney cancers. “Women after menopause with a body mass index exceeding 28 have a 30 per cent increase in breast cancer risk.”
Today 61% cent of all people who get cancer survive long term (five years) in Australia. This is for all types of cancer excluding non melanoma skin cancers. For breast cancer the figure is 88% surviving at least five years. Source Professor Ian Olver, The Cancer Council Australia.
Since 1994 Australia’s biggest morning tea has raised $60 million for cancer. Why not host a high tea at your home with cucumber sandwiches, have your mothers’ group over for a teddy bear’s picnic, or host a morning tea at work. See www.biggestmorningtea.com.au to register.
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