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How can I make sure I don't ever get Cancer? I constantly fear getting sick?

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  1. Alan G
    Member

    First, put all that energy you are wasting on worry to better use. The numbers are not nearly as glum as the TV news would have you think. Generally, the best prevention is to eat a diet primarily consisting of raw fruits and vegetables. Roasted or steamed is ok too, but raw is better. Berries are low in calories and high in the good stuff, so try to have them in the mix.

    Vitamins can be good, but do not go over board. Do some regular exercise, including weights.

    Invest some time and cash in research - subscribe to "Prevention" or other journal of healthy living.

    Oh yes, see a doctor at least once a year for blood work and check up.

    Good Luck!

    Posted 1 year ago #

  2. Brandon
    Member

    I agree with Alan G ^ But don't let it control your life ;)

    Posted 1 year ago #

  3. Denisedds
    Member

    You can’t make sure you don’t ever get cancer and having grandparents who had cancer doesn’t do anything to increase your risk for one of the 200 diseases called cancer. What you eat or don’t eat has a little effect on GI cancers, although I have seen vegans and vegetarians with colon cancer, and exercise is thought to help with a few, but overall it neither makes much of a difference.

    Posted 1 year ago #

  4. Robert Pendergrast, MD
    Member

    Sounds like you care about your health and you are doing a lot already to keep your chances of cancer low. There are a couple of other ideas I have for you that I know will be helpful. One is that fear is never a great motivator in the long run. Rather than working to live healthy because you are afraid of cancer, try flipping that around and saying, "I have decided to live in such a healthy way that I will live a long, energetic, productive life, and the world will be a better place for my having walked here!" Having a purpose makes you healthy, living in fear makes you sick.

    Also, be careful to really define what you mean by "eat the healthiest diet possible." There is so much misinformation in the media and the bookstores on what is healthy... and most doctors aren't any help on nutrition. Check out the website with real information on a cancer prevention diet.

    Robert Pendergrast, the Holistic Medicine MD

    Posted 1 year ago #

  5. lo_mcg
    Member

    There is no way to ensure you don't get cancer. A healthy diet is always important, but there's no diet or particular food proven to prevent cancer (or to cause, treat or affect the progress of cancer). An exception is that a diet high in red and processed meat is a major risk factor for clorectal cancers - though, as Denise points out, vegetarians and vegans can develop colorectal cancers too.

    Hereditary cancer is rare - fewer than 10% of all cancer cases, all types, are hereditary. And cancer diagnosed after the age of 50 is even less likely to be hereditary.

    Two second degree relatives (grandparents) who had cancer (which developed after the age of 50, perhaps?) and who were not related to each other doesn't increase your risk of any type of cancer.

    A sign that cancer MAY be hereditary is when several members of the same side of a family have had the SAME type of cancer, especially if some developed it at a younger than usual age.

    You don't inherit a general tendency to get cancer, and there's no general 'cancer gene'.

    Posted 1 year ago #

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