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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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Olives May Have Anti-Cancer Effects

June 3, 2009 – 9:30 am

Olives and olive oil are often touted as healthful foods. In the following article, two studies highlighting the possible anti cancer properties of these foods are discussed.

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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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Colonoscopies Do NOT Prevent Colon Cancer

January 14, 2009 – 5:19 am

I have been seeing some stories lately about how colonoscopy is only effective for detecting cancer in the left side of the colon (i.e. the descending colon), and not the right side of it (i.e. the ascending colon).
What really alarms me is how I have seen several headlines which go ‘colonoscopies only prevents X% of [...]

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Smoking Raises Colorectal Cancer Risk

January 13, 2009 – 8:19 am

A study carried out in Italy has revealed that smoking increases the risk of getting colorectal cancer by about 18%, as well as of dying from the disease by about 25%.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Exercise and Physical Activity Lowers Risk of Colon and Rectal Cancers

December 30, 2008 – 11:47 am

Exercise is critical for good health.
A study published in the November issue of Cancer Causes and Control has indicated that exercise and physical activity helps to reduce one’s risk of getting colon cancer and rectal cancer. On the flip side, lack of physical activity increases the risk.

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More Physical Activity Means Less Cancer Risk

December 28, 2008 – 9:02 pm

Yet another study has linked the level of physical activity in one’s life with one’s risk of getting cancer. Not unexpectedly, there is an inverse correlation. And this piece of research is said to be the first conducted on a non-Western population.
The study was published in the American Journal of Epidemiology and was carried out [...]

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Study Suggests Vitamin D Improves Survival From Colorectal Cancer

November 23, 2008 – 11:34 am

by Reuben Chow
first published on NaturalNews.com
A study led by Kimmie Ng, M.D., M.P.H., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has found that colorectal cancer sufferers with high levels of vitamin D had better survival rates during a follow-up period when compared to those with low levels of the vitamin. The study also involved the Harvard School [...]

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