HOW TO PREVENT CANCERS

In our new brochure, Cancer Survivors' 8 Ways to Stay Healthy After Cancer, we really push the importance of exercise as a way to boost mood, improve overall health, and possibly cut the risk of cancer recurrence. Backing up this latter benefit is a new prostate cancer study that found that regular brisk walking could cut the risk of cancer progression...

In a predominantly premenopausal population, Eliassen and colleagues evaluated plasma vitamin D levels (25-hydroxyvitamin D) and risk of invasive breast cancer (see article). During up to 10 years of follow-up after blood samples were collected some 613 cases of breast cancer were confirmed in this cohort. In a detailed analysis that accounted...

Photo: courtesy practicalowlIf you tracked the health news last week, you may be suffering a bit of whiplash from all the double takes of unexpected headlines: “Mammograms plummet among women under 50” (MSNBC); “Study questions value of salt reduction in healthy people” (Boston Globe);...