Seven Easy Steps You Can Take to Discourage Cancer

Cancer cells form in everyone from time to time, but they do not necessarily develop into the full blown illness. Trillions of cells make up the human body. As each one wears out, a new cell replaces it. If something goes wrong in the replication process, however, an abnormal (or defective) cell is born. Our immune system normallly destroys defective cells. When for some reason a defective cell evades the immune system, the cell may begin to multiply out of control. This is cancer.

Every person can do seven easy things at home that may help discourage cancer, either by making the body a difficult place for cancer cells to grow or by strengthening the body's imune system.

Make Your Body An Unwelcome Place For Cancer. There are simple things you can do to make your body an "inhospitable host" for cancer cells.

Cancer cells grow best with low oxygen levels in the tissue. You can increase the oxygen levels in your body by learning to breathe correctly. Keep your chest still and use the stomach muscles to take deep, full breaths, expanding your lungs fully. Take an occasional double breath by breathing in as much as you can and then forcing in a little more air. Exercise regularly outdoors, doing something you love.

Cancer cells get their energy from sugar. Avoid spiking your blood sugar level by limiting soft drinks, candy, cookies, cakes, and highly processed foods (e.g. fast foods). By eating a low glycemic diet, you deprive cancer cells of their favorite food and may discourage their growth.

Cancer cells can best use sugar for food when the surrounding tissue is acidic. One of many simple things you can do to help make tissues more alkaline is to drink water daily that contains fresh lemon juice.

Cancer cells spread by breaking down the barrier between cells (called collagen) . Vitamin C helps the body to manufacture and repair collagen. Taking extra vitamin C may thus strengthen the barriers between cells and help to retard the spread of cancer cells.

Strengthen Your Immune System. When the immune system is weak, it cannot as readily destroy abnormal cells in the body. There are simple things you can do to strengthen your immune system.

Eat a healthy diet containing 7 - 9 servings of fruits and vegetables per day to provide the nutrients and antioxidants needed for healthy cells to replicate properly. A good diet will help your immune system remain strong so it can "seek and destroy" defective cells, as it is meant to do.

Low speed juicing of fruits and vegetables is a good way to take in more fruits and vegetables than you might normally eat in your daily diet. Drinking beverages made from low speed juicing of fresh, organic produce will provide your body with plant chemicals, enzymes, fiber and water that help both to build your immune system and to flush out toxins.

Drink green tea regularly. Green tea has been shown to encourage natural cancer cell destruction and to help in the actual treatment of several different kinds of cancer. It also seems to block certain enzymes created by cancer cells, possibly retarding its spread.

Nutritional supplements are a must for strengthening your immune system. The best of diets cannot adequately compensate for the nutrient poor food we eat as a result of depleted soil or the damage our bodies sustain from free radicals. High quality, pharmaceutical-grade supplements can help your immune system obtain what it needs to operate effectively by taking on board enough nutritional building blocks and antioxidants to help it do its job.

Ginny Cone, Life Style Mentor and Successful Entrepreneur, is helping many become the next success story.