According to the NIH National Cancer Institute, the lifetime risk of developing cancer for all men and women is approximately 39.3 percent and in 2016, there were an estimated 15,338,988 people living with cancer in the United States. Survival is improving and many cancers are being diagnosed at an earlier stage making treatment more effective. The majority of cancers develop slowly over time and are diagnosed after the age of sixty. It can take ten to thirty years for ca

I once read that “disease enters through the mouth.” I’m not sure where this originated, but it’s striking and true. All the chronic diseases we face today are a result of what’s being put into our bodies. We are surrounded by toxins in the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. The human body can only withstand this type of assault for a finite period of time. The symptoms may start out slowly, but once the body becomes overwhelmed, the symptoms make

How often do you find yourself trying to remember what you ate for breakfast? Are there times when you scarf down your lunch and don’t even remember how it tasted? Maybe you didn’t even enjoy one bite because your mind was thinking about the ten things you needed to accomplish before you could leave work, rather than enjoying your meal. How many of us have sat on the couch with a bag of potato chips or carton of ice cream, mindlessly stuffing ourselves without even thinkin