The First Step In Cancer Prevention is Lifestyle
Change your lifestyle to help cancer-proof your longevity!
The first step in overcoming ill health and disease is changing your lifestyle. Prevention is much easier than the steps to defeat cancer once it gets started. Read the following piece below is from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center page.
“It’s a disturbing mystery that has drawn the attention of investigators from across Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK).
Why are a growing number of young people under 50 being diagnosed with over a dozen forms of cancer around the world? This trend is especially worrying in women, according to statistics released in January 2025 by the American Cancer Society, which found that cancer incidence rates “in women under 50 are now 82% higher than their male counterparts, up from 51% in 2002.”
Types of Cancers Becoming More Common in Young People
Men and women in the prime of their lives are increasingly being diagnosed with serious cancers, including colorectal, breast, prostate, uterine, stomach (gastric), pancreatic, and more. One forecast predicts cancer for this age group will increase by 30% globally from 2019 to 2030.”
Are You going to be one of the new statistics?
There are many lifestyle factors to consider, the high rate of obesity in this country in young adults, junk and processed food diet, excessive alcohol, unprotected sex, unhealthy sex practices, drug use, smoking, sugar, soda, amount of time spent on devices, and the thousands who got Covid Shots and boosters. When there are so many important factors affecting health….it will be hard to pin down the root of this cancer upsurge.
Choose NOW- Health or Cancer and ill health later. It is up to you!
What about the women who have healthy diets and lifestyle who are getting breast and other female cancers at an alarming rate? If you take out the negative lifestyle habits, you have two things left which are the hours you spend on apps, your phones and computers, and Covid 19 shots. You can throw genetics in after that. When I was growing up, none of my classmates or friends later got cancer as a young person. Death was due mostly to drinking and car wrecks. Now cancer is common in babies, children, and young people.
Since you cannot easily determine the cause of the upsurge in cancer among the young, you need to do your best to cut out the lifestyle factors that might be a problem in your health. This applies to any of you no matter what your age is reading this today. If you are older, these steps can help you live longer with better or improved health.
The first step is being honest in evaluating your habits and lifestyle.
List them honestly and then write down first why you need to eliminate them and how doing so would improve your life. You need good reasons to cut out those bad choices. If you stop a bad habit because for someone else, you won’t stick to it.
Take one bad habit at a time and make a plan. If it’s alcohol, try to cut back on the amount of drinking you do one week at a time. Each week work on one or two areas of your life that need improvement.
I challenge all of you to look at your lifestyle and begin even one small step to adopt healthier habits.
Leave your excuses behind in 2024 and commit your mind and heart to making your life healthier. One step at a time…one bad habit at a time….!
Leave me a message and let me know what steps today you are going to change.
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All for tonight, Cathryn Freer, the Herbladyisin