Breast Cancer Awareness month is now?in full swing.? Everywhere you turn there’s someone showing their support for breast cancer awareness.? There are jewelers selling pink ribbon pendants with a percentage of proceeds going to breast cancer research.? You’ve got NFL teams wearing pink to show their support for breast cancer awareness.? Several places are providing free mammograms this month. There are celebrations going on, walks to raise money, commercials promoting early detection is the key to the cure, and so on and so on and so on.? It has to make you wonder with all of the money spent on finding a cure and treatment for breast cancer why it is more common than it was in the past.? Fifty years ago 1 in 20 women had breast cancer and now that number is a scary 1 in 8.? What is going on here?? With all the money being poured into breast cancer research? shouldn’t things be better not worse?

What you’re not seeing on tv are ways to prevent breast cancer.? You don’t hear everyday about some simple things you can do to decrease your chances of breast cancer.? No one is telling you the dangers of mammograms, they just keep telling you to get them.? And the age they want you getting them just keeps getting younger and younger.? If you want to learn simple ways to help prevent breast cancer you really have to go out there searching for it.??It’s not exactly easy to find?the information online, but it’s out there.? ?I’m going to tell you?some easy things that you can do to help lower your chances of getting breast cancer.?

First?thing? is DO NOT GET A MAMMOGRAM!!? That’s right, I’m saying do not?get a mammogram.? Dr. Charles B. Simone, a former clinical associate in immunology and pharmacology at the National Cancer Institute says, “Mammograms increase the risk for developing breast cancer and raise the risk of spreading or metastasizing an existing growth.”??For premenopausal women mammograms pose an even greater risk because the breasts are so highly sensitive to radiation.? It’s such a risk that no other nation practices mammography on premenopausal women, but?here women as young as 30 are encouraged to get them.? Mammograms provide false tumor reports 5 to 15 percent of the time.? False positive results lead to more exposure to radiation through more mammograms and possibly unneeded surgery.? There is no actual evidence that mammograms save lives, but yet that is what we are led to believe.? In fact, the National Cancer Institute even admits that doing monthly breast self exams?can be?as effective?in finding early tumors and without the radiation risks.? In case you are wondering at this point why mammograms are being pushed on us the way they are, well I can give you billions of reasons.???Actually, it’s an excess of 10 billion dollars annually.? No wonder they say we have to have mammograms.? A breast self exam is quite a bit cheaper than that…free.? You can do it yourself and if you don’t know how you can learn how to do it online, for free.?

Another easy thing you can do is watch your diet.? Eat organic food.? Organic food is free of herbicides and pesticides which can increase the risk of breast cancer because the chemicals interfere with normal cell growth.??Certified organic meats and dairy products?are free of hormones like bovine growth hormone, a chemical fed to cows that has been shown to promote the growth of breast cancer cells.? Minimize your whites – white rice, white flour, white potatoes, sugar and products containing them. These foods trigger hormonal changes that promote cellular growth in breast tissue. Watch your fats, minimize the omega-6 fats and maximize the omega-3 fats.? Eat monounsaturated oils (canola, olive oil, nuts/seeds, avocados) as your primary fat source because?these foods have potential anticancer properties.

Stay away from parabens.? Parabens are used in thousands of different cosmetics and foods?as a preservative.? Research parabens, find out all the different names of these parabens and then avoid them.? It may seem that it’s in everything, but you can find products without it.? I use makeup, shampoo, conditioner, shave gel, soap, etc that is all paraben free.? Once you know what you’re looking for it’s not difficult to find.? Parabens can be inhaled, ingested through food and absorbed through the skin.? Parabens are being found in breast cancer tumor samples showing that they can stay intact in the body and that they are stored in breast tissue.?

These are just a few of many things that you can do to help lower your risk of getting breast cancer.? If you take a little time to do some research, you’ll find plenty of information to help you be healthy.? It’s all up to you to take care of yourself.??It’s not just about early detection, treatment and finding a cure.? It’s also about being responsible for your life and your actions.? Eating toxic food,?being in?a toxic environment and living a toxic life is a huge contributor to breast cancer.? I do believe that there is prevention for breast cancer.? Until women start talking about alternatives though?and refusing to do the traditional forms of treatment, then things will not get better.? I’d love to see that 1 in 8 statistic return to the place it was fifty years ago at 1 in 20 or even better.?

“You cannot poison your body into health with drugs, chemo or radiation. Health can only be achieved with healthful living.” ~ T.C. Fry