Cancer

Breast Cancer Risk is Influenced by Lifestyle Choices

Diet and Exercise are Cancers’ Adversaries Excluding cancer of the skin, breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women.  According to the American Cancer Society’s Surveillance and Health Policy Research, an estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer are expected to occur among women in the US during 2009; about 1,910 new cases are expected among men.  Read the rest of this entry »

Low Vitamin D Levels Put Your Health At Risk

Do You Get Enough Vitamin D? Now that the long sunny days of summer are gone and winter is on the doorstep, it is even more important that you assess your vitamin D status.  The health benefits to having sufficient vitamin D levels have permeated the media in recent years.  We now know that nearly 85% of the US population are vitamin D deficient.  Read the rest of this entry »

Telomere Testing Revelas a Window to Your Biological Age

Telomeres are the end caps on your chromosomes that protect the genetic material during cell division, ensuring a faithful replication.  Each time the cell divides, the telomere shortens until it reaches a critical lenth signaling cell sensence or cell death.   Recently, this years Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to three researchers that spent the last 20 years detailing the role and function of telomeres in aging and potentially in future cancer treatments. Read the rest of this entry »

The Essence of Estrogen

A hormone is a molecular messenger that acts on adjacent cells, the cells that produce it or travel to sites throughout the body that are sensitive to its effects.  Hormones regulate your body’s energy production, temperature, growth, immune system, reproductive capabilities and neuroactivity.  Your individual hormone balance is influenced by genetics, the environment, your lifestyle, eating habits and the function of your endocrine (hormone producing) system.  Read the rest of this entry »

Obesity Increase Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Smokers More Likely to Suffer Cognitive Decline

Dangers From Smoking Continue to Mount

Smoking is a very expensive habit, both financially and health-wise.  It has been widely recognized as the greatest individual risk for heart disease, stroke, emphysema, chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD) and lung cancer.  It has also been strongly implicated in early erectile dysfunction (ED) and breast cancer. Read the rest of this entry »

How Much Vitamin D is Enough?

Healthy Eating Helps Reduces Chronic disease

Modern day nutritional habits are the cause of the explosion in heart disease, type-2 diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome.  High calorie, high fat, high sugar and processed foods are to blame.  Calorie deprivation is not sustainable and only leads to chronic hunger and failure of the diet.  It is the quality of the calories consumed: highly refined, easily digestible carbohydrates that triggers the excess weight gain and obesity. The link between refined carbohydrates and disease was not understood for many years.  Refined sugar and white flour were treated as equivalent to raw fruits, vegetables and whole grain flour.  It is now known that ingesting refined carbohydrates leads to insulin resistance, and is the culprit in the development of the metabolic syndrome:  increased insulin, increased triglycerides, high LDL and low HDL, increased blood sugar, high blod pressure, and abdominal obesity. Read the rest of this entry »

Alcohol may increase cancer risk in women

According to a large scale British study, even low to moderate alcohol consumption is associated with an increased risk of several cancers.