I was just reading through an old article that I wrote a couple of years back about lowering your risk of cancer. As I was reading it, I couldn’t help but think that the information I’d shared there seemed so incredibly obvious. Only then it occurred to me that sometimes we need to have the obvious stuff shoved in our faces again and again so that we remember to do it.
If you want to lower your risk of cancer, you need to use common sense to take care of yourself. Eight obvious things that you should be doing to lower your risk of cancer are:
- Eat right. Don’t eat too much red meat or drink too much alcohol. Do drink enough water. Eat moderately. We know these things but are we doing them.
- Exercise. Regularly. Even though you don’t want to.
- Avoid smoking. C’mon, you know this one.
- Make sure you get preventative shots. Reducing your likelihood of getting such other diseases as HPV is going to reduce the likelihood that you’ll get certain types of cancer.
- Get outside. Spend time in nature so that you’re not just sitting inside the toxic chemicals of home and work.
- Green your home. Speaking of toxic chemicals, stop using them in your own home.
- Get preventative health screening. You need to know early on if there are signs of cancer so you can combat them.
- Talk to your doctor about cancer. The more you know, the more likely it is that you’ll be able to prevent it.
These things are obvious. Are you doing them?
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