We hear it all the time?lose weight for your health. Few people however, realize the extent to which this is critical to their physical well-being and ultimately their life expectancy.

Encouraging Tips when CANCER is the diagnois is an article which discusses many advances in the field and provides the reader with multiple related encouraging resources for the many different strains of this disease. This is a consolidated information site with many valuable links.

This Dr. Rodio Health article points out dismal cancer statistics since the advent of highly processed foods and other possible carcinogens we consume.

A cancer diet needs to have natural, preferably raw foods included. This article explains why this is so important, and suggests ways to include more raw foods in the diet.

According to World Bank statistics, in 2001 year were registered about seven million deaths worldwide from cancer. This is a high amount of men and women. The big concern is that 35 percent from deaths were attributable to the only nine behavioral and environmental risk factors, with alcohol and smoking playing large roles.

Of the seven million worldwide cancer deaths reported in 2001, 35 percent were attributable to nine well-known behavioral and environmental risk factors. The nine risk factors are overweight and obesity; low fruit and vegetable intake; physical inactivity; smoking; alcohol use; unsafe sex; urban air pollution; indoor smoke from household use of coal; and contaminated injections in healthcare settings.

A new study, published in the Lancet, suggests that specific lifestyle changes would impact more than a third of cancer deaths worldwide. Learn what these risk factors are and how they may impact your own health.