Do you know that cancer diseases can be prevented?
As most of us are afraid of having cancer diseases, it is important to note that there are ways of avoiding and preventing certain cancer diseases.
According to World Health Organization (WHO), cancer is the leading cause of deaths worldwide and there is an alarming increase of number of cases every year.
Several risk factors have been linked to cancer namely ;
1. Unhealthy lifestyle which includes lack of physical exercise, smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages and improper or poor eating habits.
2. Exposure to occupational and environmental carcinogens (e.g. indoor air pollution) and radiation.
3. Some Infections like Hepa B and Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection.
According to WHO, there are key risk factors that can be avoided and these are as follows:
a. tobacco use – responsible for 1.8 million cancer deaths per year (60% of these deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries);
b. being overweight, obese or physically inactive – together responsible for 274, 000 cancer deaths per year;
c. harmful alcohol use – responsible for 351 000 cancer deaths per year;
d. sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HPV) infection – responsible for 235, 000 cancer deaths per year; and
e. occupational carcinogens – responsible for at least 152, 000 cancer deaths per year.
Being healthy and maintaning a healthy lifestyle is a disciplined action. There are those who wish they had been responsible enough but only to find out its too late already.
It’s interesting to know that you have the power in you to prevent cancer by staying healthy and eating healthy foods. As life in itself is very simple, let’s take care of ourself by doing healthy little things everyday.
A simple brisk walk will already do wonders to your body. Even sleeping 8 hours a day helps so much in keeping your body healthy.
Last but not the least, choose the kind of foods that you eat everyday. You can beat cancer. It’s all up to YOU.