GOOD NEWS ABOUT CANCER

In this Newsletter, Paul van den Berg, Pharmacist and Franchise owner, gives us tactics to reduce your risk of cancer.

• Quit smoking and vaping. No surprise, but essential. 20% of all cancers are caused by smoking. Lung cancer is still the cancer that kill most men that are smokers. Vaping only really became commercially available across the world in 2006, so there is not a lot of long-term cancer data available. But no doctor will tell you that vaping is good for you. Quitting is not easy, but cessation programs are the smarter way to go.
  
  
• Embrace the No Alcohol trend. More than five drinks a day or fifteen drinks a week can raise your risk of colorectal, breast, espphageal, liver, stomach, mouth and throat cancers by up to 500%. So however much you drink, we suggest you drink less. The booming non-alcoholic market totally has your back. There are a number of 0% alcoholic beers on the market that you can indulge in should you wish to have a few beers every now and then.
  
  
• Clean up your grooming gear. Despite a growing awareness of carcinogen in personal care products, you need a chemistry degree to understand the labels.the Environmental Working Group can help. It’s a search friendly database (ewg.org/skindeep) and contains nearly 90 000 safe personal care products. You can also look for the EWG verified label, which means the product is free of any chemicals flagged by the EWG as unsafe.
  
  
• Do the same for your home. Some household cleaners contain carcinogens. Research have shown potentially hazardous, volatile and semi-volatile organic compounds in clear-sounding “Green” products. Note: there is no regulation as to what makes a product “Green”.