In the fight against cancer, maintaining a healthy immune system is vital

Maintaining ahealthy diet is one important way to reduce your chances of getting cancer and other diseases. There are many foods that help the body naturally fight off cancer cells. The Important thing, is to keep your immune system operating at maximum capacity. The right nutrition can help you do just that. But there are other steps that you can take to strengthen your immune system and take control of your health. Whether you want to avoid getting cancer, or if you've been diagnosed with it or any other disease; here are a few things that will help you fight off these diseases:

• Get plenty of sleep every day.
• Unless you've been diagnosed with skin cancer, try to get 30 minutes of sun a day (during low intensity hours).
• Eliminate all processed sugars from your diet - including sugar substitutes that are chemically produced.
• Substitute natural green tea for coffee and sodas (in tea use stevia instead of sugar).
• Maintain a regular exercise regimen of at least two to three times a week.
• Cook exclusively with coconut oil and use extra virgin olive oil only when cooking with extreme heat. Do not burn your foods.
• Change your diet so that two thirds of what you eat is vegetables and fruits.
• Load up on herbs and spices like garlic, ginger root, turmeric root, basil, rosemary, and cinnamon. You should be consuming one or more of these daily.
• Try to buy only organic vegetables and fruits, especially for things like strawberries, broccoli and spinach, which can absorb or contain chemical pesticides in the skin or leaves.
• Make sure you are getting plenty of iodine in your diet.. Switching a large portion of what you eat to fruits and vegetables helps with that, but there are other sources, like kelp and using iodized salt instead of non-iodized.
  
• Eliminate most starches, especially breads that are processed with bromine.
• Drink at least eight glasses of water a day.
  
• Avoid processed juices like orange juice, which contain too much sugar and are robbed of all their nutrients. Get your juice directly from the fruit and drink instantly. An even better choice is to blend the whole fruit (-outer skin) in a high speed blender.
• Purchase grass fed beef whenever possible.
  
• I was not going to include this one because I figured, if you're smoking, you either want cancer, or you don't have a clue. But to avoid getting emails from people saying"You forgot the most important one",here goes... Don't smoke!
• Finally, it doesn't hurt to get a massage when your feeling stressed. 

The average American diet provides the body with less than 25% of what it actually needs. Add to this the amount of impurities that we intake, and the lack of proper exercise and sleep that is seen in most lifestyles, and it's is no wonder that two out of three Americans will be diagnosed with a major life threatening disease. We all wonder why we can't even find the cure to the common cold. Well it has been in front of our noses all along. Follow the steps above, and you will see a reduction in the amount of times, and duration that you become ill.

The Perfect Dieting Solution

Making health conscious choices has many other benefits as well. Your need for dieting will also be eradicated. With less processed sugars and more wholesome foods, you will begin to loose any extra weight without the need to go hungry. Green tea for instance is a metabolic booster. along with its many antioxidant benefits, it also serves as an instant dieting solution. Drinking green tea at least once daily will help keep those extra pounds off. Another benefit of eating healthy is increased vitality. Once your body cleanses itself of the effects of processed sugars, you will begin to notice that you have much more energy to do the things you love to do. Emotional effects will become evident. This is mainly do to the improved functioning of your hormone producing glands. Your emotional state will improve as your hormones begin to balance themselves out.

In Summary

Americans are killing themselves without even realizing it. We have placed blinders in front of us and have chosen to ignore the most important asset we have, our health. Without a healthy body we are robbing ourselves of our ability to fully enjoy our lives and our love ones. But we are not the only ones to blame. The medical establishment has helped us achieve this blindness with a subtle but effective campaign to ensure its continued growth. They tell us they will cure us, but instead treat symptoms without actually curing the disease. The promote pharmaceutical drugs which do more harm instead of directly addressing the cause and solution of the problem. And what information on nutrition and other lifestyle related issues they impart is both vague and insignificant to the point of being morally criminal. In short, if you want to be healthy, live a long happy life, take the steps above as a guide and continue learning how to manage your own health. Take responsibility for your health and the health of your loved one.And please for this and all other issues related your health, don't forget to consult your physician first.