Readers digest cancer prevention list

[EliteMike]

http://www.rd.com/health/cancer/31-s...r/article.html

[thetanningguy]

one line says to get more sun and another says to get a spray-on tan to avoid skin cancer

[solman]

I like this...on the one hand it says to get 15 minutes of natural or artificial sunlight a day and then also puts in a plug for spray tanning. Since I offer both I see it as a win-win. This is the first time I remember seeing a "main-stream" publication/website actually mention "artificial" sunlight as acceptable.

[trackerbuddy]

Top Ten Ways to Stay Healthy

1. Don’t smoke if you can stop. If you can’t, cut down
2. Follow a balanced diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables.
3. Keep physically active.
4. Manage stress by, for example talking things
through and making time to relax.
5. If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation.
6. Cover up in the sun ,and protect children from sunburn.
7. Practice safer sex.
8. Take up cancer screening opportunities.
9. Be safe on the roads: follow the Highway code.
10. Learn the First Aid ABC – airways, breathing, circulation.

An Alternative Top 10 List

1. Don’t be poor. If you can, stop. If you can’t,
try not to be poor for long.
2. Don’t have poor parents.
3. Own a car.
4. Don’t work in a stressful, low paid manual job.
5. Don’t live in damp, low quality housing.
6. Be able to afford to go on a foreign holiday and sunbathe.
7. Practice not losing your job and don’t become unemployed.
8. Take up all benefits you are entitled to, if you are unemployed,
retired or sick or disabled.
9. Don’t live next to a busy road or near a polluting factory.
10. Learn how to fill in the complex housing benefit/asylum
application forms before you become homeless or destitute.

from
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi....x?cookieSet=1
and
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7202/114