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Breastfeeding offers many benefits for both baby and mom. A recent study found that breastfeeding provides protection against cancer for women who have been treated to overcome various types of cancer during childhood. In this article we tell you more details on this finding and other benefits of breastfeeding and breast milk.

Breast milk not only provides essential nutrients and antibodies against diseases to babies. As mentioned earlier, the benefits of breastfeeding are not just for newborns. Mums can also benefit from breastfeeding or breastfeeding. Read the rest of this entry »

Quite likely you know someone who has had cancer, like a family older than you or a relative of a friend of yours. But sometimes the cancer also affects adolescents and, when the affected person is you, then the word cancer takes on new meaning, a meaning that you can live as something very personal and frightening.

If you have been diagnosed with cancer, you should know that although it is rare that people will develop cancer during adolescence, you’re not alone. The good news is that most teens who get cancer survive and can resume a normal life.

The word cancer actually includes a group of diseases, rather than be single. What they all have in common is that the body’s cells (tiny units that make up all living things) behave abnormally, growing and multiplying uncontrollably and eventually form tumors.

Many people who have cancer (or who knows someone who has cancer) finds out about it helps you better understand your situation and have the feeling that the more control. Being informed about cancer, it helps people feel more prepared to ask relevant questions and to take responsibility for therapeutic options. Read the rest of this entry »

To help prevent cancer, specifically, blood would have to drink, at least, about five cups of green tea per day, according to findings of a recent Japanese study.

This ancestral infusion and has been linked with big benefits to our health: since it is good for the heart until it is useful to treat overweight or obese.

According to Dr. Toru Naganuma, School of Medicine of Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan, green tea also “would have a favorable effect on some cancers.”

In this timely study, Naganuma and colleagues gathered information on food habits and consumption of green tea from nearly 43,000 Japanese men and women between 40 and 79 years to see the possible development of blood cancers or “lymphatic system”.

These adults, at baseline, were healthy and showed no tumor history. After nine years of follow up, there were about 157 blood cancers, spinal cord and lymphatic system within the group examined.

Thus, the team found that the overall risk of developing cancers of the blood was up to 42 percent lower among those who had the habit of drinking five or more cups of green tea per day.

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Vitamin A is known as the “miracle vitamin” because it promotes our immune system and growth. It is included in many foods, and in regard to food and nutrition can we receive from various sources.

The benefits of vitamin A include:

It is an excellent antioxidant, it helps protect cells against cancer and other diseases. Improving vision and prevents night blindness. Favors the formation of strong bones. It acts as a protector against bacteria, viruses, and parasitic infections. It protects us against heart disease, stroke and reduces the cholesterol level in blood.

It can improve skin health, especially the skins acenias or psoriasis. Reduces expression marks, fine wrinkles, skin spots and clarifies that form with age. Vitamin A supplements are recommended for children with respiratory problems.

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