Can Vitamin D Really Help Prevent Breast Cancer?

As time goes on, research is showing that vitamin D (the sunshine vitamin) can be very influential towards helping prevent and treat certain types of cancer, and breast cancer is one on the list. What exactly does this all mean? Read on to find get the facts surrounding the latest research about the benefits of vitamin D in relationship to fighting breast cancer.

Studies show that vitamin D can help prevent cancers by approximately 77%, according to past research. Now, it is said to be able to help prevent breast cancer, and even aid in the reversal of breast cancer in the body. Knowing this, why does the cancer industry refuse to tell people about this?

If you live in an area where it is possible to get vitamin D from sunlight, it would be wise to spend the necessary time to soak up the benefits from nature's "miracle medicine". When sunlight hits the skin it will trigger the formation of vitamin D. It then activates cellular differentiation in the kidneys and liver, which is basically the opposite of what cancer does. Evidence is indicating that vitamin D DOES have a protective role in the fight against breast cancer.

How Much Time in The Sun in Necessary

If you can manage to soak up around 15 minutes of sunlight every day during the months when it is possible would likely give you a nice healthy dose of vitamin D. Remember, you don't need to walk around in a bikini or Speedo, but the more exposure to your skin the better. And sun block can prevent vitamin D from entering the body by blocking the necessary UV rays.

Studies have also shown that older women that do not get as much vitamin D as possible from foods are more likely to acquire breast cancer. So be sure to load up on foods high in vitamin D, like fatty fish, and sardines.

Being vitamin D deficient has many other health consequences. It is tied to so many other health ailments, and it makes sense to try and do whatever is possible to get the necessary amount so you can avoid many of the problems that arise from being deficient.

In summer months, you can get appropriate levels of vitamin D from the sun, but in those months when you can't it would be wise to supplement your vitamin D. The good news is that you can do that for a low cost.

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Vitamin D has a wide array of benefits, and it is not something you want to become deficient of. The effects vitamin D has on breast cancer are undeniable, so be sure to take the time to educate yourself on the subject as much as possible.

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Safe Indoor and Outdoor Tanning Helps Prevent Breast Cancer

I covered myself with moisturizer, stepped into the stall, pulled the door shut behind me, grabbed the overhead straps and WHOOSH... sun lamps flooded all sides of my body. As their warmth gently enfolded me, a fan whirred overhead, keeping the temperature at a very happy level.

Suddenly the lamps shut off; my three minutes were up. Sadly, I stepped out of my sun stall, put my sweats on over my lubricated body and went home to take a real shower.

No I am not insane; just better informed, healthier, and slightly more tan than I was yesterday.

For the past seven years, I have relentlessly studied the known, probable and possible causes of invasive breast cancer. In 2007 I created a national non-profit organization that teaches women lots of safe, effective and inexpensive ways to help stop breast cancer before it can start.

I soon discovered research on how increasing vitamin D3, the sunshine vitamin, is a powerful way to strengthen your body's ability to block the growth of any breast tumors, not to mention prevent or relieve asthma, allergies, some skin conditions, colon cancer, depression and auto immune diseases. After completing a more extensive review of the vitamin D3 literature, I understood that maintaining a tan throughout the year, while supplementing with vitamin D3 can be the most effective way to raise and maintain blood levels to a protective level. Once you get enough of this special vitamin, (it's actually a hormone that our bodies synthesize from UVB tanning rays) your immune system gets stronger and stronger.

Over the past twenty years, dozens of research biologists and epidemiologists have understood that one major reason New England women have higher breast cancer rates than women living in southern states, is because the northern winter sun's UVB rays are too weak to enable the skin to produce vitamin D3.

A few years ago, Cedric Garland, an epidemiologist at the Moores Cancer Center in San Diego, found that raising vitamin D3 blood levels to 60ng/ml-80ng/ml makes breast cells interlock or stick together, enabling healthy cells to knock out any neighboring mutated or pre-cancerous cells through a process called apoptosis. Using this knowledge, computer models indicate that breast cancer will become a rare disease within the next 20 years, once women are able to reach and maintain that magical 60-80 ng/ml vitamin D3 blood level.

Dr. Joseph Mercola M.D., founder of mercola.com., the leading natural health website with 1.4 million subscribers, and Dr. Marc Sorenson, director of the Sunlight Institute, believe that maintaining a tan, using outdoor and indoor light sources, is the most efficient and effective way to raise and maintain these protective D3 levels. According to a 2004 study by Michael Holick, the nationally known Vitamin D3 researcher at Boston University, people who used indoor tanning had vitamin D3 levels 90% higher than people who avoided sun lamps. Holick's tanners also had significantly higher bone mineral density than their un-tanned or pale-face peers.

So ignore those TV ads by sunscreen manufacturers and those magazine articles (paid for by the same advertisers) about the need to use sunscreen all the time. Chemical sunscreens, a $640 million business in the U.S. alone, block UVB rays, the very rays we need to naturally make vitamin D3. Constant use of chemical sunscreens, by children and adults alike, can also block their ability to develop a decent tan, the one natural sunburn protection enjoyed by our ancestors for centuries.

Holick recommends that light-skinned people who burn, but never tan, use an umbrella in the summer for best protection. Since their pale skin does not block any UVB rays, they actually produce vitamin D3 very efficiently! Reflective sun light and supplements are all these pale faces need to reach significant D3 blood levels.

But those of us who tan easily, especially African Americans, Italians, Greeks, and Hispanics, need much more outdoor and indoor unprotected tanning time because it takes our darker and darkening skin tones longer to absorb enough of those UVB rays to create healthy vitamin D3 levels.

What about melanoma? Recent studies show that people with the highest risk for this deadly skin cancer include folks who drink a lot of alcohol every day, don't eat many leafy green vegetables, and/or have low vitamin D3 levels.

"As more and more Americans work indoors full time, and as more sunblock is used each year, U.S. melanoma rates continue to sky rocket; but people with high levels of vitamin D3, do not develop melanoma," said the Sunlight Institute's Sorenson.

Once U.S. doctors begin to understand the incredible immune support offered by higher vitamin D3 levels, they may stop recommending sunscreen 24-7 to all of their patients. As physicians begin to focus more on preventing disease naturally, instead of quoting corporately-supported pro-sunscreen articles, they will hopefully encourage their patients to become nourished by UVB rays, sensibly gained through limited outside and indoor tanning sessions.

So let the sunshine in!

Susan Wadia- Ells PhD is founding director of the National Breast Cancer Prevention Project/ Know Breast Cancer, http://www.knowbreastcancer.net/, sponsors of the 2012 Essex County (MA) & & Key West (FL) Busting Breast Initiatives...teaching women 3 EASY WAYS to help stop breast cancer before it can start. To begin an Initiative in your community or for more information on Know Breast Cancer's work, email info@knowbreastcancer.net

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The Best Way To Reverse and Prevent Chronic Diseases - No Half-Truths Please!

I recently read and replied to a magazine article written by an R.D. about how plant-based diets are effective in can "Curbing Cancer." It was a good article, but like almost all articles I read that celebrate a vegetarian or vegan lifestyle, her article told only half the story.

She suggested 5 essential plant-based foods and 5 key nutrients that are vital to health. Then she concluded by saying that "a plant-based diet generally contains less cholesterol and fat and more fiber. So, the eating plan that best fights cancer also fights heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, stroke and obesity. Now that's a diet we can all live with!"

In my reply I commended the author for her advocacy of a plant-based diet, and I agreed with her conclusion. But here is where I feel she only told half of what we have learned from recent research.

I specifically talked about the elephant in the room which nobody is willing to talk about, and which is becoming more apparent as our disease epidemic is quickly becoming a pandemic.. The elephant I am referring to is "Animal foods". The elephant in the room is Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Products. Why do I say that?

The most ground-breaking disease research ever completed in history is the recent research on the direct cause and effect relationship between the foods we eat and the diseases they cause.This research, published in a book by the title, is The China Study, a massive multi-year project that was completed by a world class team of researchers in the early 1990's. They were testing the hypothesis that chronic diseases are triggered and develop because of inadequate animal -based protein in human diets.

Their extensive study included 170 diverse research population groups, and every group produced identical results, which in itself was remarkable. And to the surprise of all the researchers, their hypothesis was totally incorrect. But even more amazing and ground-breaking was the study results that revealed a clear-cut cause/effect relationship between eating animal products and diseases.

When all the data was compiled and analyzed, they discovered that the groups that consumed under 5% meat, eggs, milk and cream, of their total food intake, had virtually no diseases present of any type whatsoever. And inversely, and to their amazement, the groups that consumed greater than 5% animal foods (of their total food intake) had developed a full range of chronic diseases, like cancer, coronary disease, diabetes, osteo-arthritis, auto-immune diseases, and every type of chronic disease we are experiencing in America (over 200 types). As if that wasn't specific enough, the study results inserted it's own exclamation points throughout the data, because it revealed that the higher the percentage of animal foods in their diet, the greater the types and the severity of the diseases they had developed.

Today, in the United States we average 15-16% of our food intake from animal-based foods (way beyond 5%). so, based on the study findings, It's no wonder chronic diseases are overwhelming us. And we are dispensing this prescription for destroying health, this epidemic of animal saturated fats, cholesterol, and excess protein consumption, that is producing a mushrooming epidemic of these same chronic diseases all around the world. How are we doing it? - by the aggressive, cancerous growth of animal-based fast food restaurant chains.

For example, the people of Okinawa, in southern Japan, who have eaten a plant-based diet for centuries, and that have never experienced any detectable level of chronic diseases, now 2 decades after the introduction of McDonalds, KFC, and Dominos animal-based foods restaurants, Okinawans are experiencing the same proliferation of chronic disease we have in America..

And to make the growing tragedy even worse, there clearly is a conspiracy of silence in this regard that is being driven by the medical industry and the media which is fully complicit in this silence. I indict big medicine for the obvious reason that if they wanted this ground-breaking news to be publicized, it would be all over the media. It is being suppressed - no other conclusion can be drawn.about the utter silence about this most significant break-through in disease research in history. The China Study was published 2 decades ago, and the book The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell, was published in 2006, over 5 years ago.

I know it's absurd to pose the questions: Why would doctors be keeping this totally free miraculous prescription that would reverse and prevent chronic diseases from their suffering and dying patients? Why wouldn't they prescribe a dietary solution to disease of simple fruits and vegetables, and a significant reduction in the toxic intake of meats, eggs, and dairy products? More revealing yet, why would doctors willingly give up their lucrative commissions from pushing medicines that are just as, if not more, toxic as animal-based foods?

You may not have known before about The China Study, for whatever reason. But now you know, and you will have to choose to follow the party line of never specifically naming what the China Study clearly reveals causes chronic diseases. You will have to decide to passively participate in the big lie, or decide to be a courageous truth teller. I invite you to join us as we pull back the curtain to expose the lies and half-details that propel this skyrocketing disease epidemic to wreck havoc on millions of innocent lives and destroy our national health.

I thank you for your article and your commitment to health and to ending disease,

Terry W. Kent, founder and director,

The Health and Nutrition Center

Terry W. Kent, BA, MST., is an expert nutrition and disease researcher, author, blogger, speaker, and the Director of The Health And Nutrition Center. To watch a brief award-winning video about reversing and preventing chronic diseases, go to http://bit.ly/tLCPDx. To see other related articles and videos, and receive Terry's latest special reports, go here: http://www.thehealthandnutritioncenter.com/

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Understanding Breast Cancer Causes: The Keys to Prevent the Disease

The causes of breast cancer and its prevention are probably the two major questions of every woman who are concerned about the disease. There are many myths surrounding this disease that are mistaken for facts. Some people believe that it cannot be prevented, and others believe that we cannot detect it through self examination. Those mistaken beliefs lead to confusion and even worsen the condition of the person suffering from breast cancer. To prevent it from occurring in the first place, we must know the causes and the risk factors. Gender and age are the two biggest risk factors. This type of cancer is more common in women over 50 years of age (around 65-70% of all cases). Race also plays a significant role; in the US, white women have a greater risk to develop the cancer than African American women.

If a woman has a history of cancer in one breast, the likelihood for the cancer to develop in other breast is increased by three to four times. Women who have a family history of breast cancer are also at greater risk. You should also be aware of any genetic changes and mutations that are passed along in your family. The disease is linked to the abnormal genes BRCA 1 and BRCA 2. Thus, women who inherit those abnormal genes, especially BRCA 1, should be more aware since they tend to develop the cancer at early age. Additionally, they are also at higher risk to develop ovarian cancer.

Hormonal factors also play a major role, too. Women whose period starts at early age (such as 11 years old or younger) and women who experience late menopause (such as 55 years old and older), are more likely to develop the cancer. Women who give birth before the age of 30 may be protected from breast cancer. On the contrary, women who never give birth at all are at higher risk.Besides child-bearing, breastfeeding is an important factor as well. Mothers who breastfeed their infants are less susceptible to cancer than those who do not.

Other lethal diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke are often linked to poor lifestyle and dietary habits. Breast cancer is not an exception. Women who consume alcohol regularly are at higher risk, depending on the amount consumed. On the other hand, it is believed that regular exercise may reduce the risk, although there is no definitive guide on how much exercise one should do. The risk is also higher in women who receive radiation therapy in the upper body to treat particular diseases before the age of 30, and those who are overweight.

Understanding the causes of breast cancer is very critical. It can help women to prevent the disease from ever happening. Do not let breast cancer take your whole life.

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