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11 ways to use your cell phone more safely
Cell phones have become a vital part of our lives. But at what cost to our health? Here’s what you can do to protect yourself from potential harm from the radio-frequency radiation emitted by these devices.
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Nimble, healthy choices to prevent 3Cs
Choosing Wisely The 3-C challenge: Minimizing Cancer, Chronic Disease and the Climate Crisis Canada is at a cross-roads. Our climate is changing more rapidly than the global average, and the…
Are Worst Fears About Mobile Phones Being Realized?
Brain tumours now the most frequent form of cancer in U.S. adolescents: Ground-breaking American study Sobering statistics Brain tumours are now the leading cancer in American adolescents, and incidence is…
12 Cancer Prevention Tips!
Cancer Prevention Tip # 1Choose a whole food, plant-based, organic diet, as fresh, raw and local as possible. Cancer Prevention Tip # 2Drink lots of pure water, filtered if necessary.…
Most cancer can and should be prevented
Canadians have been given reason to redouble efforts to stop cancer before it starts. This is the least-funded yet most effective approach to cancer. The Canadian Cancer Society is urging…
Healthy beauty that is easy on the environment
By Meredith Kost, with the Prevent Cancer Now writers’ circle DOES BEAUTY REALLY HAVE TO COME AT A COST?
Exercise can reduce cancer risk
DID YOU KNOW? “The least active individuals have the most to gain from even small increases in activity.” (January 2015) “Swedish Vasaloppet skiers developed one third fewer prostate, breast, colorectal…
Playing Chemical Detective – avoiding cancer-causing chemicals in the products you buy
By Beverley Thorpe As Prevent Cancer Now advises on its website: Be a Cancer Smart Consumer. Great recommendation but no easy task. We don’t know if that adhesive or paint…
Banning minors from tanning beds is true cancer prevention
You may not realize it but in Canada more-and-more kids are regularly using tanning beds – often several times a week! Many know about the dangers of ultraviolet (UV) radiation,…