This video, titled "Easily Reduce Your Risk of Cancer," by Deb Ford, DCN, RDN, explains that only a small percentage of cancers are genetic, and most are influenced by lifestyle and environment. It covers five key areas to reduce cancer risk: avoiding tobacco, maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active, eating a plant-focused diet, and minimizing exposure to toxins. The video also recommends five specific supplements that may help in cancer prevention.
Key Takeaways
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Only about 2% of cancers are genetic, meaning lifestyle and environmental factors play a much larger role in cancer risk than inherited genes.
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Avoiding tobacco products, including vaping, is a crucial step in reducing the risk of various cancers.
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Maintaining a healthy weight throughout life significantly reduces the risk of many cancers, and even small weight loss can offer health benefits.
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Being physically active, aiming for around 8,000-9,000 steps a day and including strength training, improves overall health and lowers cancer risk.
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Eating a healthy diet rich in colorful plant foods (aiming for 5-10 servings daily), limiting processed and fatty meats, and choosing organic grains can dramatically impact cancer prevention.
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Minimizing exposure to environmental toxins like phthalates, bisphenol A, and heavy metals found in food and products helps reduce cancer risk by preventing hormonal disruptions.
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Curcumin (specifically BCM-95 extract) is a top recommended supplement for cancer prevention due to its ability to encourage cancer cell self-destruction and prevent blood supply to tumors.
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Andrographis, grape seed extract, berberine, and melatonin are additional supplements suggested for their potential anti-cancer properties and ability to complement conventional treatments.
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Making consistent diet and lifestyle changes, potentially incorporating one or two supplements, can significantly reduce your lifetime risk of cancer and promote a long, healthy life.
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good morning and welcome to another
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edition of today's nutrition where we
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look at what is new in research what's
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hot in the news or any topic that can
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help us lose weight be healthier or live
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longer better usually all three this is
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a fun month in our family jam packed
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with lots of birthdays in fact my mom
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who just turned 91 has two great
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grandkids naturally born on her birthday
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I say is she the queen or what I just
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want them all to live a long and vital
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life so I want to increase all of our
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chances for Health and
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Longevity in this day to increase our
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chance of the quality of life long term
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the topic is cancer
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prevention in this show I'm going to
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give you the most important essential
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tools to prevent cancer including diet
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lifestyle and research on prevention and
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treatment with natural
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alternatives you know all of us have
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been touched by someone who's had cancer
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and the overall lifetime risk of each of
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us is getting uncomfortably large so I'm
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going to talk about personal risk
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reduction because we have so much we can
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do to radically reduce our risk of
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getting cancer and hang on to the end of
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the show and I'm going to give you my
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personal selection of supplements that
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are top for cancer
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prevention even used in combination with
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conventional treatments if someone's had
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the
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diagnosis what guy triggered today for
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this topic is yet another person I know
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who has gotten that dreaded diagnosis
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you know it really is time we all set
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our feet down firmly in defense of our
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health before we're the next to get the
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diagnosis you know I get a little
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selfish these these terrible lifestyle
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and environmental diseases are taking
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our favorite people whether it's cancer
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heart disease Alzheimer's or a laundry
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list of diseases we seem to ignore what
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we can do to radically reduce our own
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risk of these diseases that Rob us some
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from so many quality years of life I for
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one I'm tired of it and I want all of
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you to do what you can to change this
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this is really good news because what
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you can do to prevent one disease is
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going to prevent a lot of different
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diseases so first of all let's review
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what we know
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genes okay it runs in the family oh you
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know it's in my jeans
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baloney this is super important you know
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all of that research we did on genes
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what it's told us that it's epigenetic
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that's most important only 2% of cancers
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are genetic that's great news so forget
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the fact it runs in the family let me
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repeat it forget that it runs in the
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family
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2% that's two out of a 100 that's not
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very much far more likely that you've
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inherited your family's lifestyle and
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diet AR habits you know this is really
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evident we've done lots of twin studies
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that followed sets of identical twins
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that were separated at Birth if it were
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genetic the health of the identical
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twins would mirror each other but it
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didn't amazing huh in fact the health
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was clearly linked to the family that
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raised the twin because diet and
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lifestyle was the one factor our genes
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influence very little of of our risk of
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cancer or most diseases for that matter
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most of the difference in cancer risk
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between people is really due to facts
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that are not inherited it's pretty
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obvious with the epidemic that we are
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seeing in cancers today that it is diet
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and lifestyle and environmental exposure
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clearly we inherit diet and lifestyle
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and that impacts the expression of our
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genes more than than
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anything we used to think that some
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groups were more immune to cancer for
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example Japanese women had a very very
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very low level of breast cancer risk in
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fact it was their diet and lifestyle
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when they immigrated to the US if they
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took on the standard American diet their
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risk equaled the average American if
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they maintained their Japanese diet and
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lifestyle it remained low so so it is
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obviously diet and lifestyle so that
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leaves us environmental influences or
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what we call epigenetic Epi meaning
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above over epigenetics is how our
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environment reacts with our genes how we
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can turn on or turn off genes that
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promote or suppress these genes are
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influenced by everything we're exposed
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to toxins and your air your water your
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food Cosmetics plastic chemicals we're
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exposed to in life and also basic
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lifestyle factors like stress
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sleep diet exercise or movement obesity
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excess alcohol and then you've got
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viruses and other pathogens but for the
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most part these are things you can
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modify and change in your life you've
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got power over these future health
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conditions it's amazing to me that this
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news isn't broadcast as loud as it can
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be because it can make a world a
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difference difference and probably save
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Medicare and Social Security I guess
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prevention doesn't make near as much
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money as disease and you're not going to
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get anybody to advertise the
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drugs so instead of being victims of
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disease your choices and daily actions
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can increase your chance for health
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vitality and Longevity what could be
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better okay so some of the things we can
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change and influence number one well
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tobacco we've all gotten that memo most
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Americans don't use tobacco and that we
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know it increases lung and other cancers
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and at about $10 a pack has really
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reduced the addiction to Tobacco check
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this one off we've finally pretty much
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gotten the word out so we won't be
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hopefully replacing it with vaping and
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that's just as bad if not worse second
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thing achieve and maintain a healthy
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weight throughout life
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obviously most important cancer risk can
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be changed by body weight you know and
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I'm thinking since $10 for a pack of
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cigarettes has impacted
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smoking I really think we should tax
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junk food and sugar you know every
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nutritionist knows about a nutritional
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index you know if it's not going to be a
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good high index lots of nutrients lots
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of sugar is low you know that would make
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a huge difference just a thought
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American Cancer Society says be as lean
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as possible throughout life without
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being underweight we really aren't used
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to people being at a healthy
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BMI you know we're we're used to people
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being heavier you compare group photos
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from the Ohio State Fair in 1950 to last
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year 2023 you would be appalled r i eyes
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just are not used to seeing thin people
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one of the biggest reasons the excess
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weight is a problem in all areas of
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health is it puts greater metabolic load
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toxic on the liver and the kidneys and
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we just have to detoxify and clear all
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those poisons so you know carrying
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around that excess weight I'm not
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talking Cosmetics not at all I'm talking
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health and for those who are overweight
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or obese even losing a small amount can
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have health benefits if you're 300 you
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lose
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10% 5 or 10% you're going to see
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benefits so this this is what overweight
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likely increases the risk of gallbladder
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cancer liver cancer non hodkin lymphoma
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multiple Myoma breast uterine cancer
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prostate cancer in addition having too
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much belly fat is linked to increased
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risk of colar rectal cancels pancreatic
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endometrium and again breast cancer in
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women
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postmenopausal most studies strong link
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between weight loss and a lower risk of
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breast cancer after menopause it's never
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too
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late number three be physically active
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this is huge for everything associated
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with health from your heart to your
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brain to your immune system we got to
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move and be strong
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you a new study from the National
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Institute of Health shows that 8,000
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steps a day reduce the risk of death by
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51% over people who only got 4,000 step
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another huge study from the UK found
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that about 9,000 steps a day reduce risk
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of Dementia by
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51% walking to prevent cancer and
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dementia pretty amazing let's build more
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sidewalks we we are designed to move
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walking is good but we also need muscle
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you know if you don't weight train
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you're going to lose 1% of muscle mass
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every year and that adds up to a heck of
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a lot of fat that replaces muscle so
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even if you weigh the
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same when you were 20 or 30 if you're
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not weight training you got more fat and
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less muscle so adults you know we're
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saying 150 minutes of moderate intensity
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or 75 minutes of vigorous intensity
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every week perfectly spread throughout
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the week so that's like 20 30 minutes a
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day of moderate activity you know and
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that is
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2% of your day yeah give it 1% you're
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going to benefit do some sort of
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physical activity no matter what one's
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level of activity it's going to have
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benefits lowering your risk for all
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sorts of health problems okay wear
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pedometer Smartwatch I don't care but
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just start increasing your number of
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steps you know I I like to have an
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accountability so my watch keeps track
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for me other people use their their
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phone but it's all good okay number
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four you know I kind of think it should
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be number one you know me eating a
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healthy diet with emphasis on colorful
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plant Foods limiting your processed me
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red fatty meat all that gone are the
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deli meats bacon and such fresh meat
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only traditionally raised on the
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grass-fed and
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pastured prepare meat by meat poultry
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and Fish by baking broiling or poaching
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rather than frying or Char broiling you
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know there's those compounds that are
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formed under high heat that aren't so
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good and eating at least two and A2 cups
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of vegetables and fruits every day you
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know they they say that's about five
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servings nine to 10 are going to be even
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better but for there was a review a team
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of researchers
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analyzed research from 95 independent
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studies looking at fruit and vegetable
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intake and early death from any cause
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and the study was worldwide involved 2.1
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million
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participants okay data shows that eating
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five servings a day was protective 10
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servings a day was greatest benefit so
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that's two to three with each meal and
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one for a snack so not as hard as you
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think you know I've got lots of recipes
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and you know you got soups you've got
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all sorts of things colorful berries
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broccoli cauliflower you know the
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crucifer is really something should be
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eaten from that category every
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day and if you're going to eat grains
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keeping the
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unrefined
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non-GMO organic grains only no
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conventional wheat corn or soy
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absolutely those destroy the gut
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microbiome because of all the pesticides
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and herbicides if you drink alcohol
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limit to no more than one a day and it's
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preferable for keeping it to under three
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a week watch for food additives and
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contaminants watch for hormones and
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antibiotics and the animal farming and
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you know just so many things now we we
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have to just touch a little bit about
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toxins oh my gosh I've done so many
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testing on these with people lately and
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there's high levels of all sorts of
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phalates bisphenol a but really all the
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VIS phenols we need to watch out for
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these compounds really do influence
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cancer risk their hormon
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disruptors um we call them endogen
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disruptors because they act like
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hormones and really increase the risk
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for many
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cancers and then you've got heavy metals
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like cadum and Mercury they build up in
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the food supply um hot topics include
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tuna salmon and even rice so I I
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certainly think that is a good idea to a
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lot allocate the budget to have as many
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organic things as possible utilizing the
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environmental working gloops Clean 15 or
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The Dirty Dozen if you have questions
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about any of this just email me I will
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give you all the info on it okay so I
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told you I promise my personal choices
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on supplements and I have a free book at
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the shop you can pick up that really
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does a deep dive my number one you know
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me kirkum the BCM 95 of turmeric you
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know and don't be misled by taking
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turmeric it only has 2% circumin and I
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love the BCM extract of circumin there's
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so much research that it can prevent and
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even treat cancer through many me
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mechanisms it encourages cancer cells to
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self-destruct prevents them from getting
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blood
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supply um also can help cancer go into
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remission there's so many powerful
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things so many benefits I could go on
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and on and on believe me when I say I
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take it every day and I feel it's the
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number one thing that I take to protect
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my health number two andrographis
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powerful adaptogen another one from
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India been shown to fight cancer in five
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different ways um encourages cancer
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cells to self-destruct and also when
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take taken with conventional treatment
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helps to banish brain fog number three
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grape seed extract contains so many of
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these opcs oligomeric
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proanthocyanidins that's why we call
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them OPC super antioxidants combined
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with curcumin oh my goodness very
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effective number four berberine a lot of
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research using Metformin on its
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anti-cancer I prefer almost the
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equivalent berberine my favorite has a
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long
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history equal to use with metformin
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targeted and uh applauded for targeting
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belly fat fat liver cholesterol
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triglycerides all the metabolically
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dysfunctional things and remarkable
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Effectiveness in colon cancer um some of
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these other they spark cancer cells to
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self-destruct prevent spreading you know
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it's like interesting there's a lot of
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research where it can be used to
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complement conventional treatment and
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now number five
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melatonin not usually would think of for
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sleep supplement but compelling research
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on the IMM immune system there is
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evidence that it works to stop
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progression and even the spread of
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cancer I know one doctor Dr Robert Round
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Tree who has a patient with pancreatic
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cancer who's taken 20 milligrams for
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over 20 years of course most more
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research needs to be conducted
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absolutely and I truly believe that if
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we keep all these things in mind the
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diet the lifestyle maybe add one or two
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supplements on a regular basis we can
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slash our lifetime risk of cancer and
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assure a long and healthy life free of
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disease takes a lot of work maybe but
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what a great hobby that pays you back
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huge dividends so that was just a quick
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rundown to help but there's so much more
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we can do I know change is hard and
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that's why I have programs to help
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people address their personal needs
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their own personal risk factors their
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genetic predispositions and support them
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in making the changes they can live with
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Thrive increase their Health longevity
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and vitality anyone wants to talk to me
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or work with directly you can reach me
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at Deb for.com it's my greatest joy to
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help people overcome their barriers to
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health thanks for listening to another
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edition of today's nutrition I hope it
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helped you or someone you love as always
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you can listen to this or other shows
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wherever you listen to podcasts or on my
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website Deb for.com have a great day and
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do something really healthy for yourself
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Easily Reduce Your Risk of Cancer
Deb Ford DCN RDN
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Jan 28, 2024
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Only 2% of cancers are genetic- this is GREAT news! So forget the adage that it ‘runs in the family’’, there is an abundance of things you can do to actively reduce your risk of cancer.