Breast Health Blog

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Dr. Fuhrman delivers the FACTS on breast cancer
Protection is Better than Detection
You can protect yourself so that you don’t detect anything!
What you should know:

Cruciferous vegetables powerfully prevent breast cancer.
Vitamin D powerfully protects against breast cancer.
Mammograms cause some breast cancers, reduce deaths by almost the same number of deaths they cause [...]

Knowing the signs and symptoms of breast cancer may help save your life. When breast cancer is discovered early, you have more treatment options.
Breast Lumps.  The most common sign of breast cancer is a lump- Yet most lumps are not cancerous.
Thickening and or dimpling of the breast.
A spontaneous clear or bloody discharge from your nipple-often associated with a [...]

A risk factor is anything that makes it more likely you’ll get a particular disease. Some risk factors, such as your age, sex and family history, can’t be changed, whereas others, including weight, smoking and diet, are under your control.
But having one or even several risk factors doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll develop cancer — most [...]

Maintain a healthy weight. There’s a clear link between obesity — weighing more than is appropriate for your age and height — and breast cancer. The association is stronger if you gain the weight later in life, particularly after menopause.
Avoid long-term hormone therapy. The link between postmenopausal hormone therapy and breast cancer has been a [...]

“In most cases, it isn’t clear what causes normal breast cells to become cancerous. Doctors do know that only 5 percent to 10 percent of breast cancers are inherited. Families that do have genetic defects in one of two genes, breast cancer gene 1 (BRCA1) or breast cancer gene 2 (BRCA2), have a much greater [...]

Hydrogenated fats This oil is chemically altered to give extended shelf life to foods such as margarine, cookies & snacks. It is also used at fast food restaurants for frying oil because it lasts longer and is much cheaper than other oil.
Better Choices: Coconut, olive or grapeseed oil.

Sugar Cancer needs sugar to [...]

This is a study that makes alot of sense to me. Let me know your thoughts.

Soy beans and soy foods contain Isoflavones- and act as “phytoestrogens”, which means that they bind to the same cell receptors as estrogen. This has led to the hypothesis that soy foods could prevent the cell proliferation that leads to breast cancer. [...]

To get started, let me first say the foods listed below are published just about anywhere on the web. What they don’t tell you is if you are not eating these foods organically, they probably are doing more harm then good. Pesticides and growth additives can hinder the effectiveness of these foods. I would strongly [...]

This simple technique is the one of the best thing you can do for prevention. Let’s talk about why. The lymphatics are a life-sustaining system that brings nutrients to cells and carries waste back to the proper regions where it can be flushed and repeat. Our bodies contain more lymph than blood. This is why dry [...]