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Craving a sugary soda or chocolate chip cookies? You can’t argue that sweet and fatty snacks are very tempting when we are tired and stressed! There’s nothing wrong with the occasional sweet treat especially with Halloween just ended. We still have those bowls of candies, chocolates, cookies and sweet treats. But when occasional becomes every day then that’s the time we open a door for cancer to sneak in. more…
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There’d been many years of research, lots of money invested and still no cure! There’d been a lot of talk about new drugs only to find out that it isn’t as good as it promised. There’s something in the new drug that is inefficient.
Why is it so difficult to treat cancer? That is the crucial question. In response, cancer researchers of the planet have desperately brought in new means to fight cancer.
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Clearly, we need all the help we can get to fight cancer. To be successful, we need to detect cancer at the earliest stage. Now, here comes a welcome but unusual help from our four legged friend. Our dog may have an efficient and effective tool that we don’t have – his nose! Really! Makes us laugh out loud by now!
For 30 years, cancer research studies have known that cancer cells exude tiny amounts of alkanes and benzene derivatives. These by-products of cancer cells aren’t produced by healthy tissues. What’s unfortunate is there isn’t any machine that can detect these chemicals at so low level. It’s really quite difficult to verify the possibility. more…
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Celebrations are happy and memorable parts of our lives. Special foods bring much pleasure during celebrations – a wedding, a christening, Christmas, a send-off party or a promotion. There is one perfect food that comes to my mind during these times – grapes!
Grape vines had been cultivated since the dawn of time. It was believed to be a native of northwest Asia. Now, grapes are grown throughout Europe and North America. They were very popular in the Roman Empire. The Romans even had a god of wine named Bacchus. more…
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How do we discover a new cancer drug? For most of us it’s a puzzle! Scientists tell us that finding the right cancer drug is a highly challenging endeavor. After 40 years of the declaration on the war against cancer, discovering new cancer drugs are still as laborious as ever.
Why is it so difficult? What are the responsible factors? The discovery of a new cancer drug can last as much as 14 backbreaking years. Understandably, the price tag reaches to almost a billion USD. more…
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We are what we eat and we are defined with what we do. The importance of what we eat is a concern of every cancer warrior. As cancer warriors, it’s important to put into action what really works. Let’s focus on one: our fifth cancer weapon – extra virgin olive oil.
Olive oil can replace a lot of dressing we add in our meals such as butter, mayonnaise and other salad dressings. Olive oil, a vegetable oil not sourced from animals, is a unique fat. It inhibits fat production. As such, it decreases the amount of fat in our bodies, fat that leads to a constant state of inflammation. more…
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Fall is here! This the season for hunting big games – deer, moose, elf, bear or croc! We prepare the territory to lure the big one and practice our art of shooting so we get our marks.
What about hunting cancer? The big difference is – we’ve to hunt for that beast the whole year long. Like hunting for a huge moose, we need to prepare the terrain. The terrain is no other than our bodies where cancer develops and grows. When we groom our bodies, we clean the surroundings much like we do when we hunt that elusive elk. This preparation is a 30 minute exercise every single day. Exercise burns the extra energy that cancer utilizes to nourish itself and survive. Sweating it out at less 30 minutes daily decreases the general inflammation. And when our bodies are rid from that inflammation, it concentrates the immune system’s action only at a very specific sites – wounds and the cancer
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We don’t want any cancer messing with our lives. But one person out of two gets cancer. That’s a fifty-fifty chance! It’s funny how we’re sold on just about anything to avoid that beast. We want a cheap and easy way to increase our chances against this disease. Probably, this is the reason why supplements and other alternative therapies flourish in the web. They claim to cure or prevent this monster. One is lycopene. more…
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Wouldn’t it be fabulous if a cancer cure is just at our doorstep? And we’re done with just one treatment protocol? Our society is one of instant gratification. We’re swayed by miracle cures and wait to win the lottery. We think that winning the lottery resolves our problem. We think that a miracle drug is that way too.
That’s what most cancer patients think of this therapy. The Di Bella therapy was developed by a Modena professor and physiologist, Luigi Di Bella. A custom-made drug mixture is taken daily based on the results of a blood test. more…
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The Latin root words of angiogenesis are angio and genesis. Angio means blood vessel while the word genesis means to make. Literally, it denotes to make blood vessel. The meaning of angiogenesis as used in a scientific or in a medical context is, “sprouting and ex tension of existing blood vessels.”