Blessings, Darlings!
I'm talking about grass fed organic beef, my dears. What did you THINK I was talking about?
Pastured organic beef - well, really, beef without growth hormones specifically - lowers the chances of early puberty especially in our daughters. Which lowers their risk of breast cancer.
Frondly, Fern
Showing posts with label breast cancer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breast cancer. Show all posts
Monday, November 1, 2010
Sunday, October 31, 2010
CPT #11 Exercise
Blessings, Darlings!
How many times have you heard/read it - "Moderate exercise is good for you"? Well, this is another one of those times!
Half an hour a day (average) of moderate exercise (bike riding, brisk walking, serious dancing, etc.) reduces the incidence of intestinal, endometrial, colon, breast and lung cancers.
Why, you ask? Let me tell you - apparently because moderate exercise kicks up the immune system. A well-tuned immune system, running along efficiently, does a better job of recognizing rogue cells that turn cancerous before they can become tumors. Maybe, if it turns out that viruses are involved in more cancers than we know about, a top-notch immune system destroys them before they can do their dirty work. Maybe it's some other mechanism that we'll find out about in the future.
For now, the recommendation I can give is to move a little more. I'm trying to get my Mother In Law to walk around the local indoor shopping mall. I'm suggesting that my mother take stairs and not the elevator. Both my Mother and Mother-in-law are in their 90's, so 'moderate exercise' for them is WAY different than 'moderate exercise' for me. The main point is - get off your butt!
Frondly, Fern
How many times have you heard/read it - "Moderate exercise is good for you
Half an hour a day (average) of moderate exercise (bike riding, brisk walking, serious dancing, etc.) reduces the incidence of intestinal, endometrial, colon, breast and lung cancers.
Why, you ask? Let me tell you - apparently because moderate exercise kicks up the immune system. A well-tuned immune system, running along efficiently, does a better job of recognizing rogue cells that turn cancerous before they can become tumors. Maybe, if it turns out that viruses are involved in more cancers than we know about, a top-notch immune system destroys them before they can do their dirty work. Maybe it's some other mechanism that we'll find out about in the future.
For now, the recommendation I can give is to move a little more. I'm trying to get my Mother In Law to walk around the local indoor shopping mall. I'm suggesting that my mother take stairs and not the elevator. Both my Mother and Mother-in-law are in their 90's, so 'moderate exercise' for them is WAY different than 'moderate exercise' for me. The main point is - get off your butt!
Frondly, Fern
Saturday, October 30, 2010
CPT #10: Bok Choy
Blessings, Darlings! damn
Today's cancer prevention tip is to have a daily serving of cruciferous vegetables - today' veggie is bok choy.
I suppose it's ironic, writing about bok choy when there is a desperate shortage of it in Korea, where it goes into the Korean staple comfort food kimchee. That said, here in the US it's easily available, cheap, tasty and healthy. They are high in vitamin C and soluble fibre and contain multiple nutrients with potent anti-cancer properties: diindolylmethane, sulforaphane and selenium.
My favorite recipe for it is to combine it with straw mushrooms (or other Chinese mushrooms), fried tofu, and a bit of stir-fried pork, then add a brown sauce (yes, the recipe I posted before). I'm using less sugar in that recipe lately, by the way, by at least half and sometimes totally eliminating it. All my recipes are always in flux!
That said, it's good to keep in mind that too much of it can interfer with thyroid drugs, in case you happen to be taking them.
Frondly, Fern
Today's cancer prevention tip is to have a daily serving of cruciferous vegetables - today' veggie is bok choy.
I suppose it's ironic, writing about bok choy when there is a desperate shortage of it in Korea, where it goes into the Korean staple comfort food kimchee. That said, here in the US it's easily available, cheap, tasty and healthy. They are high in vitamin C and soluble fibre and contain multiple nutrients with potent anti-cancer properties: diindolylmethane, sulforaphane and selenium.
My favorite recipe for it is to combine it with straw mushrooms (or other Chinese mushrooms), fried tofu, and a bit of stir-fried pork, then add a brown sauce (yes, the recipe I posted before). I'm using less sugar in that recipe lately, by the way, by at least half and sometimes totally eliminating it. All my recipes are always in flux!
That said, it's good to keep in mind that too much of it can interfer with thyroid drugs, in case you happen to be taking them.
Frondly, Fern
Monday, October 25, 2010
CPT #5 - Breed!
Blessings, Darlings!
This is a tip that applies to ciswomen only: being pregnant or nursing your entire post-puberty life greatly reduces your risk of breast cancer. At least if you are a female rat.
There is an INCREDIBLY HIGH rate of breast cancer in female pet rats. Why? Because evolution's programming is for them to be pregnant or nursing - or both at once - all the time. Pet owners, however, not wanting to find homes for all those ratlings, don't tend to let that happen. So they get breast cancer a lot.
For human women, it's a bit different. There is a slightly lower risk of having breast cancer if you have at least one child, especially one before you turn 30. There is an additional slightly lower risk if you have many children - the main theory is because you have fewer menstrual periods. I'm not sure about the details on how that helps, the scientists might not know yet.
Of course, having one (or more) child(ren) just to reduce your risk of cancer is not doing justice to the child(ren). Gods know, parenting is rarely about the parent, when done right.
Frondly, Fern
This is a tip that applies to ciswomen only: being pregnant or nursing your entire post-puberty life greatly reduces your risk of breast cancer. At least if you are a female rat.
There is an INCREDIBLY HIGH rate of breast cancer in female pet rats. Why? Because evolution's programming is for them to be pregnant or nursing - or both at once - all the time. Pet owners, however, not wanting to find homes for all those ratlings, don't tend to let that happen. So they get breast cancer a lot.
For human women, it's a bit different. There is a slightly lower risk of having breast cancer if you have at least one child, especially one before you turn 30. There is an additional slightly lower risk if you have many children - the main theory is because you have fewer menstrual periods. I'm not sure about the details on how that helps, the scientists might not know yet.
Of course, having one (or more) child(ren) just to reduce your risk of cancer is not doing justice to the child(ren). Gods know, parenting is rarely about the parent, when done right.
Frondly, Fern
Thursday, October 21, 2010
CPT #1
Blessings, Darlings!
I'm going to use "CPT" for the Cancer Prevention Tips series, just so you know.
And the first tip is one of the ones I'm finding hardest to implement - drop your body fat index to under 25%. Why? Because it seems that obesity increases the risk of cancers of the breast (postmenopausal), endometrium (the lining of the uterus), colon, kidney, and esophagus.
I'm starting with this tip because this one takes the most time to reach, unlike a 'don't do this/do that' quickie.
That said, I'm NOT willing to say that it's the obesity itself that directly ups the risk, although that could be it in some cases. For esophageal cancer, for example, the largest risk factor is gastric reflux. But being obese increases the rate of reflux, just because of the weight/pressure on the stomach pushing the contents up to the esophagus. And, as we'll get into later, many of the activities involved in losing weight are also associated with lowering cancer risks.
So, to repeat - Cancer Prevention Tip #1 - start work towards dropping your weight.
Frondly, Fern
I'm going to use "CPT" for the Cancer Prevention Tips series, just so you know.
And the first tip is one of the ones I'm finding hardest to implement - drop your body fat index to under 25%. Why? Because it seems that obesity increases the risk of cancers of the breast (postmenopausal), endometrium (the lining of the uterus), colon, kidney, and esophagus.
I'm starting with this tip because this one takes the most time to reach, unlike a 'don't do this/do that' quickie.
That said, I'm NOT willing to say that it's the obesity itself that directly ups the risk, although that could be it in some cases. For esophageal cancer, for example, the largest risk factor is gastric reflux. But being obese increases the rate of reflux, just because of the weight/pressure on the stomach pushing the contents up to the esophagus. And, as we'll get into later, many of the activities involved in losing weight are also associated with lowering cancer risks.
So, to repeat - Cancer Prevention Tip #1 - start work towards dropping your weight.
Frondly, Fern
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