Sentences with phrase «increased risk of getting cancer»

Everyday we read or hear about unhealthy foods - foods like infant formula, processed / packaged industrially made infant foods, junk foods, foods with high levels of starch, transfats, highly processed foods, which increase our risk of getting cancer, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and other non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

Not exact matches

(Smoking substantially increases a person's risk of getting a number of cancers, heart and lung diseases, and other ailments.)

«Many people are deficient and don't even know it — and not getting enough may increase the risk of osteoporosis, heart disease and certain types of cancer,» she warns.

Men who don't use sunscreen increase their risk of getting sun damage, which may result in redness, irritation, extra blood vessels and skin cancer.

Depending upon where you live and how dark your skin is, going outside regularly may be all that is required for you or your baby to generate adequate amounts of vitamin D. However, one of the problems with getting your vitamin D with sun exposure is simply that it's hard to determine how much time outside is needed since it depends on so many factors (skin tone, latitude, time of year, how much skin is exposed, amount of air pollution, etc.) Keep in mind that there is also a concern of sunburn and increased risk of skin cancer with too much sun exposure.

Studies done with animals show that acrylamide in the diet increases the risk of developing several different types of cancer, including stomach and colon cancer and don't get me started on the salt levels.

Along the way, according to a 2013 study, you'd get dosed with the radiation equivalent of a whole - body CT scan every five to six days, increasing your lifetime cancer risk above the limits set by NASA.

A 0.5 percent increase in risk is the same as one chance in 200 of getting cancer.

Mounting evidence indicates that if we don't get enough of it, we could leave ourselves more susceptible to infections, increase our risk of autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis and type 1 diabetes, and even raise the risk of certain cancers.

The strength of the association between smoking and lung cancer is even stronger, with smokers being 35 percent more likely than non-smokers to get lung cancer, but in terms of epidemiology, the 16 percent increased risk of skin cancer in ever - users of UV tanning remains strong.

A weakened immune system is thought to increase a person's risk of getting several cancers caused by other viruses, including non-Hodgkin and Hodgkin lymphomas; anogenital cancers, including penile, vaginal / vulvar, cervix, and anal; Kaposi sarcoma; and possibly oral - related cancers; and liver cancer.

We get heavily hyped drugs like Avastin, which shrank tumors without adding significant time to cancer patients» lives (and increased the incidence of heart failure and blood clots to boot); Avandia, which lowered blood sugar in diabetics but raised the average risk of heart attack by 43 percent; torcetrapib, which raised both good cholesterol and death rates; and Flurizan, which reduced brain plaque but failed to slow the cognitive ravages of Alzheimer's disease before trials were finally halted in 2008.

They estimated that, for each step - by - step increase in the women's consumption of red meat, there was a step - by - step increase in the risk of getting breast cancer over the 20 year study period.

In one lung cancer study, the most telling observation was that for those getting screened regularly, the rate of cancer detection was almost the same in smokers as it was in nonsmokers — even though we know that smokers face about a 20-fold increased risk of dying from lung cancer.

Richard Wiseman, professor in the Public Understanding of Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, commented: «This is a huge rise, and the results are extremely worrying because getting less than seven hours sleep a night is below the recommended guidelines, and is associated with a range of problems, including an increased risk of weight gain, heart attacks, diabetes and cancer.»

As you get older, your risk of developing cancer increases.

But when things get out of balance and inflammation becomes chronic, it can increase the risk of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and rheumatoid arthritis and cause symptoms like fatigue and joint pain.

Researchers discovered that women and men having a non-melanoma skin cancer history, the commonest type of cancer in the US and includes squamous cell and basal cell carcinoma, had a 26 % and 15 % increased risk, respectively, of getting another type of cancer in comparison to individuals who had no such history.

White people having kinds of skin cancer apart from melanoma could be at increased risk in the future of getting other types of cancer.

«In the Womens Health Initiative (WHI) trial, when women got seven years of estrogen alone, there was no increased risk of breast cancer, but after four to five years on combined hormone therapy, the risk emerges,» she says.

Taking estrogen may increase a woman's risk of getting breast cancer.

In the interview, Applegate also advocated for women to get tested for BRCA gene mutations, which increase the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer cancer.

MYTH: The Pill increases breast cancer risk There is a slightly increased risk of getting breast cancer if you are on the Pill.

MYTH: The pill increases your risk of breast cancer Although there is a slightly increased risk of getting breast cancer if you are on the Pill, Dr Farrell says it's incredibly low and more likely in women aged over 45.

There was a significant link between amount of alcohol consumption and further increased risk of getting benign breast disease as young women in adolescent girls having a family history of breast cancer.

Increased exposure to damaging sun rays can promote wrinkles and increase your risk of getting skin cancer.

The findings were more complicated for men, who showed a 4 percent increase in likelihood of developing cancer less likely to get a cancer diagnosis, but that number was skewed by the finding that diabetes lessened the risk of prostate cancer.

«When you consume protein in levels higher than recommended above, you tend to activate the mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) pathway, which can help you get large muscles but can also increase your risk of cancer.

Dr. Peter Osborne: And the now we look at other drugs that sometimes get brought in and these drugs are basically severe immune - suppressants like Humira or Enbrel, and these things shut down immune system so now you — you start these medications and you're on them 5 - 10 years, now you're looking at a huge risk, increased risk for cancer and other kinds of infection.

They didn't actually get cancer, but the high - protein diet did increase many of the traditional colon cancer risk factors.

But, the required dose of radiation delivered to the chest is so high that a young woman getting just a single scan, for example, may increase her lifetime risk of breast cancer and lung cancer by between around 1 and 4 %.

I know it sounds like a lot of dietary changes just to get rid of acne, but the good news is that in addition to killing acne, the recommendations above will also help you lose weight, increase energy and drastically lower your risk for chronic diseases like heart disease and cancer.

For example, the superbug MRSA, which can cause hard - to - treat skin infections, appears to contaminate approximately 5 % of U.S. retail meat; mysterious skin hives or allergic reactions may be a sign of alpha - gal meat allergies; a lack of safety thresholds in U.S. meat for drug residues, toxic metals, and pesticides can potentially result in jaundice and skin cancer; a case of Vitamin A poisoning from fish actually resulted in one man experiencing such serious peeling of his skin it took more than three months to heal; using tanning beds instead of natural sunlight or supplements to get Vitamin D is linked to an increased risk of the deadliest kind of skin cancer; milk consumption has been associated with increased acne risk; and low antioxidants levels in the skin may correlate with the development of wrinkles.

My major caution is that the low FODMAP diet lowers bifida bacteria populations which are linked with decreasing colon cancer risk — so the diet should be used short term — with the goal to try to get some of the fructans / GOS foods that increase these healthy gut bacteria population back into the diet.

There is enough messy evidence that eating animal protein unnecessarily increases our risk of getting diseases such as cancer without providing overall benefits.

Corn oil increases * risk of getting cancer, increases * weight, and deteriorates the function of liver, kidneys, adrenal glands, spleen and other organs.

Could they get the good aspects of IGF - 1 elevation and negate the bad (increased cancer risk) with a huge consumption of fruits and vegetables?

This oil can increase * the risk of getting lung cancer, lead to loss of vision and decrease * the functionality of central nervous system.

Alcohol seems to increase the risk of many other problems, including getting cancer (even with very light drinking), cancer recurrence, weight gain, liver damage, and heart arrhythmias.

However, the higher risk of developing breast cancer increases * as women get older.

And that can increase risk of cancer because basically what happens is you end up with two different chemicals getting absorbed into the blood stream.

These get in the body and mimic the effects of estrogen causing things like weight gain, mood disorders, and increased risk of estrogen - linked cancers.

Getting all worked up about the increased risks of cancer for children in older portable classrooms, we started talking about an idea of actually involving students and teachers in the design of the classroom of the future.

One out of every three children is now overweight or obese, which increases their risk of diabetes, heart disease, and cancer as they get older.

Alas, humans aren't the only animals getting wider, and obesity in dogs leads to the same kinds of problems that it does in us: diabetes, increased cancer risk, and liver disease — to say nothing of the toll it takes on a French bulldogs joints.

There is also an increased risk of cancer as cats get older.

Although we don't have the ability to predict cancer, we can take steps to lower your cat's risk of getting cancer or increase their odds of early detection and treatment.

Females, who migrate from low to high risk countries, have an increased chance of getting Breast Cancer.

Some people will get a dose of radiation at a level that would increase the risk of cancer in 25 years, and a few might suffer radiation poisoning, which at high doses can be fatal.

For example smoking increases the risk of cancer, but you can't guarantee every smoker with lung cancer got it from smoking.