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Cancer proof yourself is way of saying you have a choice. There is great promise in a healthy lifestyle. If you take a step back in time you will be able to view a much healthier lifestyle.

We have conquered many acute illnesses, which people in the past had to deal with. The modern twist to that is we have produced many chronic illnesses from our analytical, clinical, microbiology, and pharmaceutical interventions.

The first thing that will come to mind for most people: there isn’t a guarantee you will not get a cancer diagnoses. If you are a betting person I would say the deck is stacked to your advantage if you increment a healthy lifestyle. In today’s world the challenges are great, but this is a way to throw yourself a lifeline. The seemingly formidable obstacles will crumble once you add healthy choices in an incremental way.

The focus of a healthy lifestyle isn’t to look at the perceivable problem, but keep your eye on the ball. That means moving out of a disease mentality to one of health and wellbeing. The modern pharmaceutical world has produced food, personal care items, fragrance, and drugs with long and ugly names, with ingredients that don’t seem to trip off the tongue. The food industry thought a cruel irony makes things that are considered edible, and imply safety. However, the truth is radically different.

There is false and misleading information on the ingredients is food, personal care items, and drugs. The world of personal care items sport ingredient labels with words like pharabens, phthalates, methyl, trimethylcyclododeca, ketone, undecylamidopropyltrimonium methodulfate, and of course plenty of other multitasking ingredients. We have endocrine disruptors, solvents, and other chemicals that are used in air fresheners, pesticides, cosmetics and fragrance.

The international fragrance association (IFRA) has made public a list of 3,163 fragrance ingredients for global use. They have provided the EPA with a list of over 600 materials used in air fresheners and more than 1,500 materials used in EPA- registered pesticide products.

Lets be perfectly clear they can proclaim how safety if the first issue of the day, but what you put on the skin is absorbed. What the nose smells may be enticing, but biologically speaking it permeates the body. It enters through the nose and makes it way to the lungs and the liver which now has to get rid of another toxic element.

The toxic opportunity is right in front of your nose, fragrance is everywhere from personal care items to scent masking products, which can  be found everywhere from restrooms, restaurants, to casinos.  you are in a fragrances environment. While improving your sensual experience, you are inhaling and being immersed in unimaginable toxins.

Toxic torts are lawsuits filed by people claiming chemical exposure in occupation or household environments claiming some type of illness from being exposed to these products. The only ones we know about are ones involving asbestos, silica  or benzene. That is because there hasn’t been enough information for the public to realize that the cancer, which the doctor’s say has no particular cause comes most times from diet and environmental exposure.

The newest development is that formaldehyde used in hair products, cosmetics , compressed board and cleaning agents has the potential to cause a rare nasal cancer to a more common form of leukemia. (acute myelogenous leukemia or AML). This as of now is one of the most difficult type of leukemia to treat.  The EPA determined formaldehyde is to be considered a cause of AML. The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancers also recognize the connection between formaldehyde and AMIL.

Formaldehyde is in preservatives found in shampoos, liquid body soaps, nail polishes, hair gels and other personal care products. The America Chemistry Council (ACC) considers formaldehyde to be essential to an estimated $145 billion of the U.S. gross national product, and dozens of industries besides the beauty industry.

To cancer proof yourself means to take prudent steps to protect yourself from all controversial ingredients. That may mean looking at all labels from edibles, personal care, pesticides, and cleaning products. The official line from the manufactures to the medical establishment is it is the amount and duration of exposure, and the individual’s susceptibility. The truth is it is the individuals resolve to stay on the path of a natural way of life.

Hand sanitizers fail to protect the public and pose a risk to every member of the family. This means anyone who is a long care health facility, nursery, child care center, or even at home.

There is an increased risk of the norovirus when hospital staff use hand sanitizers. The first choice for the hospital workers including the doctors is an alcohol based hand sanitizer. It is quicker and easier than washing then a soap and water scrub down.

Many studies have found the effectiveness of alcohol based hand sanitizers to be inadequate against norovirus. What this implies is that long term care facilities where outbreaks are more frequently experience the use of alcohol based hand sanitizers doesn’t provide the measure of protection implied.

Pharmaceutical Approved

Top pharma firms keep hawking it like it’s the answer to mother nature’s bio-diversity. Advance clinical investigations point to an oversight of immense implications. The initiative to use hand sanitizers was fueled by promotion and advertising. First came the adaption phase where everyone was encouraged for their safety to use hand sanitizers. They are used by hospital personal, placed on cruise ships before you enter the restaurant, and at the parked shopping carts at the supermarkets. In the name of public safety hand sanitizers have expanded their distribution channels.

Public Use of Wipes

The adaptation phase of public use of hand sanitizers is complete. With the public and health care workers resting easy with the superpowers of hand sanitizers, we are in for a era of super bugs. Cleaning products that offer a rich lather enhance consumer appeal except when it comes to clean hands.

The new wipes are soap busters that got off to a goad start in the profit department. Soon t this type alcohol anti-bacteria wipe will be a body wash. Why shower anyway when you can wipe yourself down in a fraction of the time.

The promised land of Eco-friendly consumer-friendly products that will meet customers’ expectations every time has not panned out. As seemingly endless steam of studies try to conform contradictory conclusions one thing has emerged hand sanitizers aren’t as good as hand soap.

Hand Sanitizers Dangers

New research has found that hand sanitizers aren’t as effective as soap and water in health care settings at preventing viral outbreaks. The fact that is emerging is they may be responsible for outbreaks of very contagious viruses. At an American College of Preventative Medicine meeting, and insightful survey routine hand hygiene was presented. The survey looked at 161 long-term care facilities and found that the use of hand sanitizers as a hand cleaner was linked to a higher risk of outbreaks of the highly infectious norovirus. This is a virus responsible for cases of acute gastroenteritis. In facilities where norovirus outbreaks occurred, staff were six times more likely to use hand sanitizers than soap and water for cleaning their hands. This is an alarming and should change policies in long term care facilities, nurseries and child care centers.

The alarming part is 53% of the facilities that reported a high use of alcohol based hand sanitizers had confirmed norovirus outbreaks. The facilities reporting using mainly soap and water had only 18% confirmed outbreaks. What should be recognized from these reports is that other virus will not be contained by the use of hand sanitizes.

Certain antibiotics can actually increase a patient’s risk of developing colostridium difficide (C-Diff). Often doctors will prescribe an antibiotic to prevent a skin infection during surgery. But sometimes that antibiotic wipes out all the good bacteria in the patient’s gut and that clears the way for C-Diff to take over.

The finale blow to human health may be a microbiology disinfecting product that damages the eco-system both in the human body and in the surrounding environment

How to stay motivated when trying to reach your goal weight begins with a strong desire to lose weight. Sustaining the enthusiasm usually dramatically diminishes as the scale doesn’t respond fast enough. The reality is it took some time to gain the weight, and reversing the trend will take time. Concentrating on the numbers isn’t the way to go about losing weight.

Weight Loss Rewards

The reward is in the effort as much as the outcome. This is the reality, the new and improved lifestyle says a lot on how you feel about yourself. When you diet just for the sake of losing weight you usually wind up with a short fix. This way is usually responsible for the yo-yo dieting. That is the one where it is akin to using duct tape and safety pins to take something and make it smaller.

The purpose of dieting has to be more that to get into a pair of jeans. The benefits are so huge that most recently it is considered a solution to type 2 diabetes, the metabolic syndrome, blood pressure problems, cardiovascular conditions, mobility, and even cancer prevention. Weight loss supports cellular energy, physical performance, and graceful aging.

Obesity and Liver Disease

Obesity leads to liver disease. There is a growing relationship between weight and liver disease. With nearly two-thirds of the population being either overweight or obese, we are seeing a rise in liver diseases. A malfunctioning liver is responsible for a host of health related conditions. These range from brain changes that mimic Alzheimer’s, because it results in memory lapses and lack of coordination. The liver detoxifies environmental pollutants, and chemicals that are in the air or food that we eat.

Dr. Naim Alkhouri, a hepatologist at the Cleveland clinic states “Its overwhelming how many patients we’re seeing with this problem. Dr. William Carey, also a hepatologist at the Cleveland Clinic says , “This is huge. We didn’t know this disease existed 30 years ago. Now, it’s the most common liver disease in America.”

Message

The message that isn’t being delivered to the weight loss crowd is this isn’t about the blubber that has hitched a ride and landed as a permanent guest. This isn’t only about beer bellies, thunder thighs, over flowing bosoms, expanded waist size of padded backsides, it’s about the quantity and quality of your life.

Accelerating weight loss by modulating your diet to increase healthy function is a long term goal. Enhancing your ability to enjoy life is one of the beneficial effects of weight management. Being chronically overweight suppresses immunity, causes some forms of hypertension, raises blood sugar, causes insulin resistance, reduces libido, causes erectile dysfunction, and accelerates aging.

One More Reason to Lose Weight

If you need one more reason to lose weight here it is. Soon enough you are going to have to defend yourselves.

Being overweight or obese turns out to be the leading medical reason why applicants fail to qualify for military service. The army had to respond to this by making allowances for recruits who are fat and out of shape. Sit-ups and long runs are out, while yoga like movements are in.

Between 1995 and 2008, the proportion of potential recruits who failed their physicals each year because they were over weight increased to nearly 70 percent of young adults between the ages of 17 to 24 were too fat for military service.

What more motivation is needed to minimize the portion of food on  plates, and change lifestyles in order to support health.