A Major Health Factor Not Mentioned Enough

Health is a general term with multiple definitions and causative factors. Exercise is mentioned in most conversations regarding health but there is little agreement regarding the best options for achieving its maximum benefits (link). Click on the link below for a brief presentation on what simple but regular exercise can do for your health in one major area:

A Morning Jog Can Reduce Risk Of These Cancers: Study

Cancer Myths

"Google ‘cancer’ and you’ll be faced with millions of web pages. And the number of YouTube videos you find if you look up ‘cancer cure’ is similarly vast.

"The problem is that much of the information out there is at best inaccurate, or at worst dangerously misleading. There are plenty of evidence-based, easy to understand pages about cancer, but there are just as many, if not more, pages spreading myths.

"And it can be hard to distinguish fact from fiction, as much of the inaccurate information looks and sounds perfectly plausible. But if you scratch the surface and look at the evidence, many continually perpetuated ‘truths’ become unstuck.

"In this post, we want to set the record straight on 10 cancer myths we regularly encounter. Driven by the evidence, not by rhetoric or anecdote, we describe what the reality of research actually shows to be true."

Don't believe the hype - 10 persistent cancer myths debunked

The Cancer I Call "The Other"

“Segregation is a cancer in the body politic, which must be removed before our democratic health can be realized.”  NO community is immune to this ancient disease that is at the base of all of society's problems.

Charlotte suffers from a disease we refuse to treat

Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article208132019.html#storylink=cpy

Obesity And Cancer

"A recent report by the organization known as Cancer Research UK presents some worrisome data describing the population's lack of awareness about links between overweight status or obesity and several types of cancer."

What People Don't Know About Obesity and Cancer Will Hurt Them

Is Cancer Due To Our Lifestyle Mainly?

"Real science knows that the biggest risk for cancer, as it is with just about every disease, is age."

Cancer As Modern Lifestyle Disease? Only If There Was Processed Food 2 Million Years Ago

Cancer: It Is An Epidemic, But Curable

The cells inside a tumour change and evolve just like animals in the wild. Understanding how this works could help us stop cancer in its tracks

Gardasil, HPV And Cancer

Your one stop shop for real science and myth-debunking about Gardasil

We Are Winning The War On Cancer

"If you read some woo that cancer is more prevalent now than in the past. Well, that’s wrong. And if you read some other junk medicine that chemotherapy kills more than it saves – this study shows that’s completely and utterly false. Science based medicine is reducing the mortality rate of almost every cancer."

We are actually winning the war on cancer in the USA.

Cell Phones And Brain Cancer

Another study in support of the finding that there is no association between cell phones and brain cancer.

" - - - avoiding cell phone use because of a possible risk of cancer is probably more likely to cause you harm than good."

Willfully Misunderstanding Overdiagnosis And Misdiagnosis

"It’s doctors like Dr. Nikiforov who see a medical practice that is not adequately science-based and fix it, not quacks like Mr. Ji, whose main interests in cancer seem to be to convince you that chemotherapy kills and causes far more harm than untreated cancer (wrong), that patients with cancer-causing gene mutations don’t need surgery (wrong), and that natural lifestyle changes and whatever supplements he likes can prevent cancer through the magic of epigenetics (wrong again)."

Mr. Ji isn’t about the careful weighing of evidence.

A Great Book About A Terrible Scourge

Harriet Hall, who has been one of my favorite skeptics for decades, highlights a new book delving into the mysteries of cancer.

Sharks Get Cancer, Mole Rats Don’t: Clues to Understanding Cancer

What It Will Really Take To End Cancer

" - - - we must reduce exposure to known carcinogens through aggressive environmental regulation at the city, state and federal level. Furthermore, we must work collaboratively across all policy sectors to improve economic stability, education, infrastructure and access to affordable, quality health care that largely define who develops cancer, who receives treatment and who survives."

Commit attention and resources to addressing the underlying social and environmental causes of this insidious disease.

"Cures" For Cancer?

A dramatic cure for cancer would be like aliens landing on the White House lawn – everyone would know about it.

Why Psychology Is Not A "Hard" Science

"Now Witkowski has written a new book, to be published later this year, Psychology Led Astray: Cargo Cult in Science and Therapy,  that is certain to ruffle a lot of feathers. He compares psychology to cargo cults. He says, 'the cargo cult phenomenon is virtually absent in physics, chemistry, and mathematics, yet it runs rampant in both psychology and sociology.' He uncovers cargo cult practices in psychology, unmasking therapies that are devoid of science, dangerous, and even cruel, especially those directed at children."

Cargo Cult Psychology

The Immune System: The Great New Hope Of Cancer Treatment?

It's several years off, but "A new study shows that some cancers hold within them the seeds of their own destruction, which could allow therapies using patients’ own immune systems."

If there is a great new hope in the treatment of cancer, the immune system is it.

Running And Cancer Risk

An active life protects against cancer. Researchers now understand why