Lose Weight...cut Your Risk Of Cancer!

The word 'cancer' is the one word people don't want to hear. It has become so synonymous with death and suffering that it is seldom mentioned or even discussed - unless there is very good reason. This is despite the fact that there have been huge advances in the detection and cure of the disease in recent years.

Cancer can be a very emotional subject, but we would be far better off concentrating on more positive aspects like the prevention of the disease. 'Cancer is not a fate, it is a matter of risk, and you can adjust those risks by the way you behave'. These are the wise words of Prof. Martin Wiseman of the World Cancer Research Fund.

The link between behavior and disease is too often forgotten or not recognized. The link between obesity, or being overweight, and cancer is well known. There are no fewer than six cancers that are linked to excess body fat. Despite this, the current obesity epidemic continues unabated.

It is a sobering fact that the 'bill always has to be paid'. One element of the bill that will have to be paid for the current obesity epidemic is a rise in the number of weight related cancers that will surface in the coming years.

There is a very urgent need for all overweight and obese people to lose weight if they are to reduce the likelihood of developing cancer, but what to do? Diets do not deliver permanent weight loss, they deliver short-term weight loss. Most overweight or obese people are caught in a never ending cycle of diets which do nothing to reduce their weight permanently and make them miserable in the process.

What to do? Make change. The only way to lose weight permanently is to make change, to change your behavior. Diets do not deliver change and they certainly do not deliver permanent weight loss.

Recognizing the bad habits that make you fat is the very first thing that has to happen This is followed by learning new habits, new slim habits.

Learning new slim habits helps you to change your eating and lifestyle habits. Habits can't be changed so you have to learn new habits to take their place. It is these bad habits that have caused you to be overweight in the first place. Change them and you will be able to achieve permanent weight loss and live a slim, disease free life.

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