Beating Breast Cancer

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Moderate exercise, little booze intake and holding down one's weight might be key strategies that reduce the odds of getting breast cancer—even if a woman's mother or sister has had the disease.

New data from 85,644 U.S. women, who were followed for an average of about five and a half years as part of the Women's Health Initiative Observational Study, confirms earlier evidence that healthy lifestyle choices can sometimes trump genes and environment when it comes to breast cancer. The results of the study were reported online October 12 in Breast Cancer Research.

"Something" that Prevent Thousands of Cancer Cases

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Cutting down on red meat and alcohol while eating more fruit and vegetables could prevent thousands of cancer cases each year, a new report said today.

A major study from the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) found that an estimated 39% of 12 major cancers could be prevented by adopting a healthy lifestyle.

This included almost half (43%) of cases of bowel cancer and 42% of breast cancer cases.

How to Gain Your Best Life

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Human beings are very often products of our environments. Whatever habits we are surrounded with are what we usually pick up as a kid. Our parents set the standard for us as kids at an early age when it comes to our nutritional habits. If people had more knowledge about nutrition and how to lead a healthy lifestyle we wouldn't have the problem we have today with obesity starting already at the age of 5 in our society. Knowledge is power and to have the power to make the right choices based upon your knowledge is what makes the difference in people's life. To make healthy conscious choices makes you feel very powerful and strong. You are in charge of your own healthy and your own lifestyle. Nobody likes to be the victim of his or her own environment.

Exercise for a Healthier Heart

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Physical inactivity, high blood pressure, and smoking are risk factors for heart disease. So, be the exception rather than the rule. Exercise for a healthier heart.
 

Eight ways to help your heart 

Look at all the ways exercise can help your heart:

•     Reduces your risk of developing heart disease
•     Lowers your risk of developing high blood pressure
•     Lowers blood pressure in some people who have high blood pressure

Try These Natural Dandruff Treatment

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Go ahead and get back in your little black dress, or your cutting edge dark suit, because now there are some fabulous natural tips on treating your dandruff.

Dandruff is due to inflammation of the top layers of the skin, which causes scales, itchiness and is also caused by the reaction of your body to products that break down the oils.

Here are some natural tips to make sure that your mane is flake free.

5 Beauty Tips from Victoria

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You might assume Victoria’s Secret model Marisa Miller was born beautiful. And yes, she’s the first to admit her DNA is one explanation for her fresh-faced, glowing beauty. “But a lot of people believe that because I’m “curvy” and “blonde” I’ve had a boob job or some other kind of plastic surgery, which isn’t true,” says the 30-year-old California native. “I’m 100 percent natural, but I have to work hard to stay in shape. There’s no magic pill. Believe me, if there was, I’d know about it.”

Simple Natural Skin Care Tips

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Sometimes the simple skin care methods are the best ones to use on a regular basis because they are the easiest to understand and the simplest to implement on a regular basis.

You can think about more than skin care products when you are trying to improve your skin’s health, and sometimes lifestyle changes are needed to make improvements. For example, anyone who eats fast food on a regular basis should think about cutting that stuff out because it will only increase your skin problems over the long term.

Top Easy Acne Treatment Tips

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Anyone who has to deal with acne on a daily basis is likely to want to know some basic acne treatment tips because no one likes to have unsightly zits on their face.

Plenty of people have to deal with acne every day, and teenagers are not the only ones who have this problem. There are plenty of adults who have to deal with acne, so don’t think that this is just a problem that magically disappears once you get to be older.

The Key to Successful Weight Loss

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Your weight is a balancing act, and calories are part of that equation. Fad diets may promise you that counting carbs or eating a mountain of grapefruit will make the pounds drop off. But when it comes to weight loss, it's calories that count. Weight loss comes down to burning more calories that you take in. You can do that by reducing extra calories from food and beverages and increasing calories burned through physical activity. 

Once you understand that equation, you're ready to set your weight-loss goals and make a plan for reaching them.

Smart Tips to Reduce Risk of Cancer

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You've probably heard conflicting reports about cancer prevention. Sometimes the specific cancer-prevention tip recommended in one study or news report is advised against in another. If you're concerned about cancer prevention, take comfort in the fact that small changes in your daily life can make a big difference. Consider seven real-life cancer prevention tips.