How to Reduce Your Chance of Getting Cancer

Modern medicine does not address the underlying causes of cancer. Instead, most of the research is directed toward expensive drugs that target late forms of the disease and greatly pad the drug companies' wallets, but simply do not prevent or "cure" cancer.

Cancer rates are still on the rise and the disease is expected to kill more than 13 million people a year by 2030, almost double the number who died in 2008. Cancer has now surpassed heart disease as the number one killer of Americans between the ages of 45 and 74. The odds are now very high that you or someone you know has cancer,is dying or has already died from it.

Cancer is mostly a man made disease. This a result of humans veering too far off course and avoiding health sustaining diets and activities, while embracing a highly unnatural sedentry, stress filled lifestyle with exposure to excess chemicals all around.

Some of the major causes of cancers:

Lack of sunlight which results in a low level of Vitamin D3

Obesity, stress, poor sleeping habits and lack of excercise

Pharmaceutical drugs

Processed and artifical foods

Exposure to pesticides and chemicals

WAYS TO REDUCE THE RISK CANCER

1. Avoid fructose and sugar

It is clear that if you want to avoid cancer, or are currently undergoing cancer treatment,you absolutely must avoid all forms of sugar, especially fructose. This is largely due to its relation to insulin resistence.

According to Lewis Cantley, director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, as much as 80 percent of all cancers are "driven by either mutations or environmental factors that work to enhance or minic the effect of insulin on the incipient tumor cells."

Craig Thompson, President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York says the cells of many human cancers come to depend on insulin to provide the fuel (blood sugar)and materials they need to grow and multiply. Insulin and insulin like growth factor (and related growth factors) also provide the signal, in effect, to do it.

Some cancer centers, such as the Cancer Centers of America, place their patients on strict low sugar and low grain diets. Conventional medicine in general has been woefully lax when it comes to highlighting the health dangers of a high sugar diet.

2. Optimize vitamin D3

There is overwhelming evidence pointing to the fact that vitamin D3 deficiency plays a crucial role in cancer development. Researchers within this field have estimated that about 30 percent of cancer deaths could be prevented each year simply by optimizing the vitamin D3 levels in the general population.

You can decrease your risk of cancer by more than half by simply optimizing your vitamin D3 levels with sun exposure or by taking vitamin D3 pills.

3. Exercise

There is compelling evidence that exercise can slash your risk of cancer. One of the primary ways exercise lowers your risk for cancer is by reducing elevated insulin levels, which creates a low sugar environment that discourages the growth and spread of cancer cells.

For example, physically active adults experience about half the incidence of colon cancer as their sedentary counterparts, and women who exercise regularly can reduce their breast cancer risk by 20 to 30 percent compared those who are inactive.

4. Diet

Only 25 percent of people eat enough vegetables. Cruciferous vegetables in particular have been idenified as having potent anti cancer properties.