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Diet, exercise, lifestyle to decrease the risk of BC recurrence
I am hoping this will be a place where you will ALL share your tricks and plans, your hopes and goals for trying to be that little bit healthier each day. There is a lot of information available and i...
I don't think I suggested or implied that green tea would prevent breast cancer or a recurrence. Just mentioned it because the title of this post was Diet, Exercise & Lifestyle Changes to Prevent Recurrence and a lot of the research I've read indicates that it may help reduce the likelihood of recurrence. I think we all agree that the jury is still out on what causes breast cancer and it's probably a complicated combination of things and that we should never blame ourselves for getting this wretched disease, ever.
But I don't think that means we should ignore and dismiss all research that shows some promise in reducing our risks of breast cancer or any other cancer for that matter. Perhaps there are small tweaks we can make to our diets and lifestyle that really do reduce the risk. Of course there are no guarantees no matter what you do but I think these things are worth investigating and, if they do no harm, giving them a try.
But I don't think that means we should ignore and dismiss all research that shows some promise in reducing our risks of breast cancer or any other cancer for that matter. Perhaps there are small tweaks we can make to our diets and lifestyle that really do reduce the risk. Of course there are no guarantees no matter what you do but I think these things are worth investigating and, if they do no harm, giving them a try.