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Cancer


Avoiding Cancer One Day At a Time

Practical Advice for Preventing Cancer
Lynn Eldridge, MD and David Borgeson, MS, MPT

A practical guide to avoiding cancer-causing exposures in your daily life.

This very practical and easy-to-read guide introduces you to cancer--what it is, what causes it, and what to do to prevent it. It includes a simple checklist you can use to see exactly what you are doing and not doing in your life to prevent cancer, followed by chapters explaining in detail the factors that contribute to cancer and how you can minimize your risk. Topics inlcude the environment, lifestyle, medicine, nutrition, and a comprehensive list of carcinogens.

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Cancer

101 Solutions to a Preventable Epidemic
Liz Armstrong, Guy Dauncey and Anne Wordsworth

A practical guide to preventing cancer in your own life and in the world.

A practical guide to preventing cancer in your own life and in the world. This book puts personal cancer into a context of a larger social picture. Part One gives background information on cancer in the world at large, followed by 101 solutions--for individuals, parents, youth, action groups, health care, cities, labor, businesses, governments, developing nations, and global action. This book really goes beyond the personal to show what can be done at all levels of society to stop cancer. Topics are presented in an easy-to-read format, presented simply on two-page spreads.

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Everyday Cancer Risks and How to Avoid Them

Effective Ways to Lower Your Odds of Getting Cancer
Mary Kerney Levenstein

An excellent, well-documented resource specific to chemicals that cause cancer.

Though media reports may sound like everything in our modern world causes cancer, in fact, some things do cause cancer and others don't. This book sorts through conflicting and misleading information. When you know what really causes cancer, you can do something to protect yourself and your family--80% of cancer is related to lifestyle choices, which each of us can control. Includes a broad range of cancer-causing exposures, beyond those mentioned in Home Safe Home.

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