Category Archives: health conditions + diseases

Link Found Between Allergies and Lower Cancer Risk

September 2, 2009 – 3:49 pm

Physical symptoms like runny nose and fever can be very uncomfortable, and most people just want to get rid of them as quickly as possible. Such reactions and symptoms, however, play a very important role in the body’s healing processes. A runny nose, for example, allows the body to flush out unwanted agents, while a [...]

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Prostate Cancer Risk of Obese Men Elevated by Use of Statins

June 14, 2009 – 3:15 am

There had been previous suggestions that statins, which are pharmaceutical drugs often prescribed to control cholesterol levels, could have a positive effect in terms of lowering prostate cancer risk. Could this be true?
The following article highlights research which suggests the opposite is in fact the case - that statins increase prostate cancer risk in obese [...]

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Overweight Prostate Cancer Sufferers More Likely to Die of the Disease

June 14, 2009 – 2:54 am

If one is obese, one has a much higher probability of contracting a host of various degenerative diseases, as well as to live a much shorter life.
Logically speaking, with a weaker body and a compromised immune system, an overweight person would also be less able to fend off and recover from various health conditions. [...]

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Impact of Diet and Lifestyle on Cancer Risk - Many Are Not Informed

June 3, 2009 – 10:12 am

A good diet can help to prevent cancer, and even help you to overcome the disease, right? Bad foods cause cancer, right? Bad lifestyle habits like alcohol drinking, lack of exercise and being overweight increase cancer risk, right?
These sound like common and commonsensical knowledge, which you would think the majority of people would be aware [...]

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Study Suggests Women with Migraines Have Lower Breast Cancer Risk

June 3, 2009 – 9:05 am

by Reuben Chow
Migraine is an often painful and sometimes debilitating condition which seems to be striking an increasing number of people in today’s highly toxic and stressful world. But a recent study conducted at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle has revealed a strange twist – that women who suffer from migraines may [...]

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Overeating Linked to Cancer

March 17, 2009 – 1:59 pm

Since time memorial, fasting has been advocated as a means of cleansing - both physically as well as spiritually.
Even today, many “alternative” and natural cancer treatment protocols encourage some form of fasting for the purpose of cleansing and detoxification, as well as for “starving” cancer cells. With obesity a major risk factor for cancer, it [...]

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Bone Loss - A Side Effect of Conventional Cancer Treatment

March 10, 2009 – 9:59 am

The detrimental side effects of conventional cancer treatment are numerous. Many are devastating, too. It is indeed a travesty that so many people have to suffer the adverse effects of such poisons masqueraded as treatment or therapy.
Here, this study describes the potential of certain cancer treatment protocols to cause bone loss. Do read it with [...]

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Prostate Cancer Risk Elevated by Gonorrhea and Promiscuous Sex Life

February 19, 2009 – 11:39 am

A study conducted at the University of Michigan has found that men who had previously suffered from gonorrhea have a higher risk of getting prostate cancer.
Another risk factor is having multiple sex partners - having had more than 25 sexual partners in a man’s lifetime also raises his risk of prostate cancer to over 2.5 [...]

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Obesity Linked in Study to Higher Ovarian Cancer Risk

January 7, 2009 – 8:00 am

According to a recent study, post-menopausal women who are obese and who have never before used hormone replacement therapy (HRT) may have higher risk of getting ovarian cancer, as compared to women who are in the normal-weight range.
This, however, does not seem to apply to obese women who have used HRT for menopausal symptoms – [...]

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High Blood Insulin Levels Raise Breast Cancer Risk

January 7, 2009 – 3:59 am

A study conducted by researchers from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City has found that women who have high blood insulin levels seem to have a higher risk of getting breast cancer, as compared to those with lower blood insulin levels.
This, according to them, might be the reason behind the link [...]

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Overweight Women Found to Have Higher Risk of Advanced Breast Cancer

December 26, 2008 – 12:51 pm

Previous studies had linked obesity and excess weight to higher risk of cancer. A recent study, published in the December issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, affirmed those findings.
The study looked at more than 287,000 women and their mammogram habits and discovered that overweight older women had a higher risk of getting [...]

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HIV Sufferers Have Double The Cancer Risk

December 21, 2008 – 1:23 am

A study which was recently conducted at the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has found that people who have HIV have a higher risk of getting cancer.
Presented recently at the American Association for Cancer Research, the study, which had looked at 11 previous American and international studies on the subject, found that people [...]

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