My Top 10 Cancer Beaters

Blogging about cancer has taught me lots of things. In my honest opinion, cancer is the ultimate (bad) karma to mankind for being so harsh to the body and the environment.

Cancer I believe is the proliferation of the worst permutations of G x E: Genetics and Environment.

That been said, I came up with the top ten cancer beaters in the order of things most controllable to man to the least controllable:

1. Go natural. Eat more fruits and vegetables. Avoid junk foods, microwable and instant foods, canned goods and cured meat products. Eat more fish. Think antioxidants, flavonoids and the likes. Furthermore, go organic. Grow your own vegetables in your backyard or even in pots if that is possible.
2. Take vitamin supplements: most specially Vitamins C and E.
3. STOP smoking.
4. Moderate your alcohol intake. Think more grape wine.
5. Exercise. Take long walks. Do yoga or any stress management training.
6. Replace some of your coffee cups with tea (especially green tea) on top of fresh fruit juices.
7. Live a healthy lifestyle. Strive for less stress. Be happier. Stay away from pollution. Lessen your contribution to pollution. Take ample amount of sleep.
8. Visit your doctor for a complete medical check-up at least once a year.
9. Meditate. Pray to God for good health and positive emotions. Whoever and whatever you conceive God to be.
10. It’s in your genes? If it is, don’t do anything that will alter it more into cancer genes. Therefore DO more of the above.

In beating cancer, prevention is better than treatment. And treatment will work better at early cancer detection. So be vigilant, regularly (at least once a year) visit your doctor. You know your body more than anybody else, when you feel something weird or if you think that there is something weird, seek an oncologist and have tests conducted on you especially if you are at a higher risk.

With cancer I think it is better to be paranoid, particularly if you are in teh high-risk demographic, as long as you seek professional help to appease that paranoia. Researching on your own wouldn’t hurt as long as you refrain from speculating and trust that the experts are there to help you.

Maybe it’s in one of those mushy movies that I love watching where I heard that cancer is angst, cynicism and frustrations stucked deep inside us. The explanation or mechanism of action may be beyond scientific comprehension but it is already known that when a person cultivates negative emotions, it creates a rackus in our body’s system: immune, excretory, digestive, circulatory –potential precursors of cancers.

So be positive and let go of negative vibes. Stop living on the fast lane. Pause and sleep and rest on regular intervals and be careful of what you eat. If you are in a congested city, seek fresh, crisp air once in a while and smell the roses, literally and figuratively.