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New year, new you: It’s almost time for new year’s resolutions
Posted: Friday, Dec 07, 2007 - 10:18:41 am EST
The American Cancer Society has outlined seven New Year’s resolutions for 2008. Focused on cancer risk factors, they are:
1. If you’re a smoker, quit. There is no one right way to quit, but there are some key factors in quitting smoking successfully: make the decision to quit; set a quit date and choose a quit plan; learn how to deal with the withdrawal symptoms and create a maintenance program. Call 800-ACS-2345 for more information.
2. Adopt a more physically active lifestyle. For adults, that means engaging in at least moderate activity for 30 minutes or more on five or more days of the week and for children and adolescents it means 60 minutes per day of moderate to vigorous physical activity at least five days a week.
3. Maintain a healthful weight throughout life.
4. If you drink alcoholic beverages, limit consumption. Alcohol increases the risk of several cancers.
Men who drink alcohol should limit their intake to no more than 2 drinks per day, and women to 1 drink per day. Regular consumption of even a few drinks per week is associated with an increased risk of breast cancer in women, so women at high risk of the disease may want to consider not drinking any alcohol.
5. Eat a variety of healthful foods, with an emphasis on plant sources. Include five or more servings of a variety of vegetables and fruits in your diet each day, choose whole grains rather than processed (refined) grains and sugars and limit your consumption of red meat and processed meat.
6. Talk with your doctor about a regular schedule for cancer screening tests based on your age and personal risk factors. These tests include mammograms and clinical breast exams for breast cancer; fecal occult blood test (FOBT), sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy for colon cancer; PSA test for prostate cancer; and the Pap test for cervical cancer.
7. Take the Great American Health Check. A great way to get started on a healthier lifestyle resolution is to answer a few easy questions through the Great American Health Check Web, an easy, confidential, online health assessment tool offered by the American Cancer Society and available at www.cancer.org/healthcheck. Users receive a personalized cancer prevention action plan that lists the cancer screening tests they need to consider, along with healthy lifestyle recommendations.
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