While we can’t always prevent cancer, we can do things to help reduce the risk of developing it. Of course, we always hear: eat healthy foods, exercise, don’t smoke. But the message doesn’t seem to be getting through because people still eat junk or high fat foods, still don’t exercise and still smoke.
The Mayo Clinic published 10 tips to reduce cancer risk in their most recent issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource.
Here are the tips and below there’s more explanation:

Stop smoking
Limit alcohol intake – some alcohol is okay, too much is not
Follow recommended intake of fruits and vegetable (daily!)
Decrease the …read more

Getting people to go for sexually transmitted infection testing is difficult enough. Getting young adults who feel that they’re invincible to go is even harder. But, a unique method in Houston, TX, may be doing the trick for some: Hip Hop HIV testing.
This unique program targets young adults, particularly African Americans, because their HIV and STI rate is climbing. According to this article, Hip-hop concert serves as lure for HIV screenings :
Everyone who receives the tests, one hour of education and their results will get tickets from KBXX-FM (97.9, The Box) to a July 11 concert at the George …read more

When I was a teen (in the dark ages), the most women had to worry about if they were sexually active was getting pregnant or catching a treatable sexually transmitted disease (STD). Because of the pregnancy concern, the Pill was a major breakthrough for women, changing their lives.
Unfortunately, the world has changed significantly since the 70s. Now, sex without a barrier method of protection is like playing Russian Roulette. I don’t think we should even call barrier protection birth control. That’s a misnomer, in my mind. Those barriers are life-savers. They prevent the transmission of illnesses like HIV, which may …read more