Prevention

Hundreds of thousands of Americans are dying from preventable cancers unnecessarily every year. Detailed below are steps you can take to reduce your risk of developing cancer:

Here are seven steps listed by the Mayo Clinic to help you to prevent cancer:

1. Don't use tobacco
2. Eat a variety of healthy foods
3. Stay active and maintain a healthy weight
4. Protect yourself from the sun
5. Get immunized
6. Avoid risky behaviors
7. Get screened

Here's an instructional video from Dr. Mehmet Oz & trainer Joel Harper, which teaches Oz' seven-minute morning workout:

Other steps and approaches to preventing cancer can be found at:

• American Cancer Society
• World Health Organization
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Prevent Cancer Foundation

There obviously are many steps we can take to prevent cancer.

Making the time to walk 20 minutes daily means that we are taking excellent steps toward making our bodies more healthy, and even if we decide not to take steps beyond 20 minutes of walking daily, it helps to know that at least some solid, helpful contribution is being made to the bank of our health.