Lowering Risk
In this video, Lynn Eldridge spends about 26 minutes speaking on "Lowering Risk" at the 36th Annual Cancer Convention held on Labor Day weekend by the Cancer Control Society.
About Lynn Eldridge
LYNN ELDRIDGE, M.D. graduated from the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, with prestigious Alpha Omega Honors in 1986. She completed her Residency at the same University with time spent in Hawaii studying health risks related to human exposure to pesticides.
From 1989 through 2005, Dr. Eldridge practiced Primary Care Medicine with a passionate emphasis on Prevention in Twin Cities, Minnesota. She wrote and published a book Avoiding Cancer one Day At A Time in 2007 because multiple family members, friends and patients died from cancer. Today she is also a volunteer cancer coach for the readers of her book and web-based columns.
Lynn Eldridge, M.D. is a visionary and passionate champion for a healthy, natural lifestyle that includes primary prevention as the key to greatly reducing your risk of getting cancer. Currently, she is devoting herself to researching, writing and speaking on cancer prevention and nutrition. She is a 4-time national award-winning author, and internationally recognized speaker and employed full time as a Medical Journalist for the New York Times company while also guiding their About.com lung cancer site at http://lungcancer.about.com.
Dr. Eldridge resides in Shoreview, Minnesota and can be reached through her website www.avoidcancernow.com or by e-mail [email protected].
Transcription
And thank you to Frank for leading this wonderful organization and to each and every one of you that came out in this beautiful Sunday morning in L.A. to talk about cancer. And I'm sure anybody looking at the title fund and cancer in the same sentence, what am I thinking?
In fact, this might be a reaction.
Am I crazy? And I realized cancer is a serious, scary disease. I know so many people, I've had so many patients that develop cancer that we're doing everything right. Much more conscientious than myself. But there are some fun, simple things we can do. And hopefully we'll be able to share some of those this morning. So we start with a question. We'll see if everybody's awake. What's something we do in bed? It feels good and most of us don't get enough of it. It's OK. Whoever said sleep and whoever said sex based on credible studies, both an adequate amount of sleep and a healthy sex life in a healthy, monogamous relationship have been shown to lower the risk of cancer. And we'll go into those. That's not the reason I put this question up first. It's just to remind all of us that we look at cancer prevention and it can be solved whelming.
But there are some very simple things we can do to lower our risk. Some don't take a lot of willpower and some we can even do in bed.
Why prevention and talking about this here, I'm I'm lecturing to the choir. We know that many, many cancers are preventable. We look at 30 percent that are probably related to tobacco. American Institute for Cancer Research says we can probably prevent up to 40 percent of cancers just with a healthy diet and exercise alone. So we're talking about a substantial number of cancers we can prevent. A very interesting thing. I've talked to a lot of people here over the last few days, and there's a lot of cancer survivors here. And the American Institute for Cancer Research last year came out with 10 recommendations for cancer prevention. And one of those is specifically just for cancer survivors. And what they recommend for preventing recurrence is to practice a lot of these principles that we use to prevent cancer in the first place. So these principles are for everybody here.
My heart was breaking a little bit last night. We went out to the Yamashiro, which is this beautiful Japanese restaurant just a few miles from here, and there's Japanese gardens. And after dinner, we walked out and looked over the city of L.A. It's absolutely beautiful. But after being here yesterday and