Health: 3 Anti-Cancer Tips

Since Darling Hubby has such a strong family history of cancer, I'm always looking for tips to protect against this scourge of humanity.

We eat a healthy diet, but I'm open to new ideas about diet and nutrition. A few I've collected over the years are these.

1. Drink homemade iced tea made from black, green, white, or oolong tea. At least 24 ounces of this each day can lower your risk by 30% of developing any kind of cancer. (Avoid the bottled teas and instant tea mixes because of the added sugar or fake sugar or other troubling ingredients.) You want the cancer-fighting nutrients in real tea. You can even add a little sugar to home-brewed tea because real tea slows the absorption of sugar. Try your best to get your taste buds to adapt to tea without sugar.

2. Work on eliminating as much sugar as possible from your diet. All cancer researchers agree that sugar feeds cancer. That's not something you want to be feeding. Enough said.

3. Get at least 30 minutes of sunshine every day to increase your body's ability to make Vitamin D. Doing this only 4 times a week will cut your breat-cancer risk by 50% without risking skin cancer. If you want to stay out longer than that, use sun block. If you're in a climate that doesn't get much sunshine, take a supplement of vitamin D. Talk to your doctor about it. She may want to test your vitamin D level first which is a simple blood test.

Takeaway Truth

There's a lot of simple things you can do every day that reduces your risk of developing cancer.