Changes You Can Make To Lower Breast Cancer

You can reduce your risk for breast cancer considerably by making some changes in your lifestyle.

Smoking increases the risk of breast cancer. Moreover, it worsens the damage caused by cancer treatment and slows the healing process after surgery. It also increases the clotting of the blood in people who are taking hormone therapy. Smoking is not easy to quit but nonetheless it should be left.

Women who are overweight are more prone to breast cancer than others. Furthermore, excess weight increases the risk of relapse in women who had the disease. Stick to a low fat, low calorie diet. Stay away from Trans fats found in—margarine, packaged and baked goods and snack foods and polym saturated fats. When you are fat your body tends to make extra estrogen that might stimulate breast cell growth. Estrogen levels tend to be lower at a healthy rate.

You also need to exercise with diet control to lower your weight. Exercise helps the body use calories more efficiently there-by helping in maintaining the weight. Any physical activity which keeps you active for 30 minutes a day is helpful. Women who are already suffering form breast cancer should add work out to there daily ‘to do’ list . Even 4 to 5 hours of exercise in a week helps. But make sure you first consult your doctor before starting.

Limiting your intake of alcoholic beverages is a must. The woman’s risk of breast cancer rises by six percent for each extra alcoholic drink she consumes on an average daily basis.

New mothers or women who are planning to become a mother must take note. There is now convincing evidence that breast feeding helps protect against both pre and post menopausal breast cancer.

Believe in “Early to sleep and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”. Our body naturally produces melatonin at night which has powerful anti cancer capabilities. Working on the computer, watching TV or even reading under a bright lamp late at night might be enough to alter the bio chemics of your body. Being an owl or working at night increases the occurrences of breast cancer by 50%.