Today's article will provide YOU with 10 healthy habits to prevent cancer.

- As society develops, changes from climate, polluted environment or eating can affect our health image and the above factors can lead to cancer in our body.

- Here are 10 habits:

1. Always In A Good Mood:

-First thing you need to live optimistically, enjoy your life to make life happy every day, work better, more effectively, and help prevent cancer. According to research, people who often have abnormal emotions, irritability, stress, and depression will have a great impact on their health and have a higher chance of getting cancer than the average person.

 

2. Avoid stimulating drinks such as Beer, Alcohol, ...


- According to a study in the United States, cancer death rates have decreased by 26%, and more than half of them are attributed to a decrease in smoking rates. Therefore, limiting smoking is the best way to reduce cancer and protect health.

- Using any type of tobacco puts you at a higher risk of cancer. Smoking causes oral cancer, laryngeal cancer, stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, bladder cancer... and especially lung cancer - the type of cancer with the highest number of cases in Vietnam. Vietnam with nearly 20,000 deaths every year. Even if you don't smoke, passive exposure to tobacco puts you at an increased risk of cancer.

- Experts note: men should only drink less than 25 grams of alcohol per day and women should drink less than 15 grams of alcohol per day is best. Drinking too much alcohol increases the risk of cancer

- The incidence of cancer increases with the amount of alcohol, the length of time, and the frequency of drinking. Drinking alcohol causes mouth cancer, throat cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, colon cancer.

- Beer and alcohol also increase the risk of breast cancer in women. If you smoke while drinking alcohol will increase your risk of diseases caused by alcohol.

 

3. Avoid Exposure to Harmful Radiation

- Skin cancer is most often caused by too much sun exposure.

- Protect yourself from sunlight to prevent skin diseases, especially skin cancer by covering your body with long clothes, hats, sunglasses, applying sunscreen with a low SPF of at least 30, even when it's shady. Limit going out between 10am and 4pm.

- Radiation from electronic devices does not cause cancer directly but can increase the incidence of cancer due to its negative effects on quality of life.

 

4. Get Enough Sleep

- Sleep is an essential need of the body, without sleep, we will not be able to regenerate energy to continue living and working. According to a statistic, sleeping time accounts for 1/3 of a person's lifetime

- There is no proven relationship between sleep quality and cancer, but experts confirm that healthy sleep helps the body's resistance to being enhanced and avoids obesity - one of the causes. common cancer.

 

5. Regular Sports

- Studies have shown that people who exercise at least 30-60 minutes of moderate to high-intensity physical activity per day have a lower risk of cancer, especially breast and bowel cancer. conclude. In addition, the incidence of several other cancers has also decreased, including prostate cancer, lung cancer, and endometrial cancer.

Exercise not only helps you improve your health, reduce the risk of disease, but also helps prevent cancer.

 

6. Healthy Diet

- Increase vegetables, fruits, grains, and nuts, limit fast foods and processed foods. According to the conclusion in the report of the International Agency for Research on Cancer, eating large amounts of processed foods increases the risk of cancer. In addition, the right diet helps prevent obesity by eating lighter, reducing high-calorie foods, limiting sugar - especially fructose, and fats from animal sources. Use vegetable oil instead of animal fat, eat more fish instead of red meat.

- Epidemiological studies show that people who eat a lot of green vegetables, especially cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cabbage, and spinach help prevent cancer.

- Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have found in these vegetables a compound that helps activate the detoxification system, preventing cancer called sulforaphane. However, this compound is easily decomposed by heat, so to preserve its activity, it is best to eat them raw, salad, or steam them for no more than 4 minutes.

 

7. Drink Plenty of Water Every Day

- The body is 70% water, so you need to drink plenty of water every day. Drinking a lot of water will help the concentration of carcinogens in the urine not increase, preventing bladder cancer.

 

8. Avoid Exposure to Agricultural and Industrial Chemicals

- Assorted wastes, pesticides in agriculture; The gases, dust, and chemical additives in industrial production not only pollute the environment but also cause harm to human health.

- Some chemicals have been proven to cause cancer such as Arsenic is used for some construction products; Formaldehyde in the preservative of some foods, detergents, soaps, or cosmetics; BPA is found in plastic containers; Diesel emissions from vehicles…

 

9. Keeping a Reasonable Weight

- Obesity causes many diseases for the body such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, bones and joints... and is the second leading cause of cancer after smoking. Meanwhile, the number of people who are overweight and obese is increasing due to increased consumption of fast food, sugar, fat, and inactivity.

- Let's lose weight by changing eating habits, reducing energy absorption, and increasing energy release through exercise or you can see our blog about 10 Ways To Lose Weight WITHOUT DIETING

 

10. Routine Physical Examination

- Most of the cancer cases when detected have reached the last stage because patients only go to the doctor when they have specific symptoms. Routine general cancer screening helps detect the disease even when there are no symptoms.

Conclusion

- Nowadays, with the advancement of medicine, which can help reduce the risk of cancer screening, professional doctors recommend that each person should have regular cancer screening. Especially for groups of people at high risk of cancer: smokers, people with chronic diseases, people whose relatives have cancer, obese people...

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