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[Breast cancer affects the lives of more than two hundred thousand women every year, but
can women actually do anything preventative?
We wanted to tell you what we had learned from Dr. David Samadi, a member of our
Fox News Medical "A-Team" and the Vice Chair of Urology at Mount Sinai Hospital here in New York.
And doc as we honor Elizabeth Edwards in her brave fight we want to give women whatever
information, and that's what Elizabeth Edwards wanted, to raise awareness. Is there anything we can
do to try to prevent this disease?] Absolutely, there's a lot we can do Jamie to prevent
this and because of the
lack of time, I think we should just go straight to some of the recommendations.
If you look at the "Dos" that we put up -
sticking to a regular exercise and weight loss is very key. By lowering the amount
of fat you lower the amount of estrogen and you can actually lower the risk for breast cancer.
Early detection is something we've spoken about; you catch it early and the cure rate just
like prostate cancer, breast cancer, they go parallel, is over 95% at five years.
Stick to a healthy diet: fruits and vegetables. Those have phytochemicals that can lower your
free radicals and can lower the rate of breast cancer. Omega-3, that's
a good fat so take your salmon, fish,
tuna, avocados and ultimately taking a multivitamin that has vitamin D. We spoke
about it last week; Vitamin E and C, soy food...
This is a long list but these are the "Dos" that you should stick to. Now,
stay away from alcohol.
Well researched - too much alcohol can increase the rate of
breast cancer. Stay away from anything that's white - white flour, white sugar -
and replace them with whole grains and whole wheat.
Fatty foods such as grilled red meat is not a good idea and certainly anything
that has estrogen can increase the rate of breast cancer. [Alright, so we've given some information.
It's a good start for us for this week doc, and you'll be back next week. We can talk more.
Thank you very much for being with us Dr. David Samadi from the Fox News Medical "A-Team".]
[Great tips as always.]