Bra and Breast Cancer

A study by Singer and Grismaijer in 1995 found that the odds of getting breast cancer dramatically increased with bra-wearing over 12 hours per day.

1. Women who wore their bras 24 hours per day had a 3 out of 4 chance of developing breast cancer (in their study, n=2056 for the cancer group and n=2674 for the standard group).

2. Women who wore bras more than 12 hour per day but not to bed had a 1 out of 7 risk.


3. Women who wore their bras less than 12 hours per day had a 1 out of 152 risk.

4. Women who wore bras rarely or never had a 1 out of 168 chance of getting breast cancer. The overall difference between 24 hour wearing and not at all was a 125-fold difference.

That is a huge difference, and the implication is clear. Your first line of defense in preventing breast cancer is to severely limit how many hours a day you wear a bra.

Bras do NOT cause the cancer initially but they restrict the flow of lymph within breast tissue, thereby hindering the normal cleansing process of the breast tissue. Many environmental toxins and pesticides that cause and promote cancer are "fat-loving" and so tend to reside in the breast tissue. Lymph fluid carries away waste products, dead cells, and toxins.

Risk of Cesarean Section

Take cesarean section only if it is really necessary. Find out here why..

1. Cesarean section poses three times mortality risk compared to normal delivery


2. Mortality rate (mother) in cesarean section is 5.8 per 100,000 deliveries



3. Other threat to a mother in every cesarean section compared to normal delivery is 27.3% to 9%. They are :

• Heart stoppage (5 times more)
• Porturation infection (3 times more)
• Having to take womb/uterus removal (3 times more)
• Blood vessel clog (2.2 times more)
• Bleeding (2.1 times more)
• Anesthetic complication (2.3 times more)
• Having to stay longer in hospital (1.5 times more)

Cigar vs Cigarette

Cigar smoke, like pipe smoke, is not traditionally inhaled: does this make it less harmful?

Cigars actually produce more tar and carbon monoxide than cigarettes, and cigar tar is more carcinogenic. The smoke dissolves more easily in saliva, delivering a nicotine dose without inhalation. The mouth and tongue are just as exposed as with cigarettes. On the other hand, cigar smokers tend to smoke less. A 2003 UK study concluded pipe and cigar smokers had a risk of heart disease, stroke and death halfway between non-smokers and light cigarette smokers and the same lung cancer risk as light cigarette smokers.

Aloe Vera Cures

Aloe vera is a plant that has been used to heal skin for more than 2000 years. A review in the journal of the US Academy of General Dentistry reports it can also be used to treat oral health problems such as ulcers, cold sores, herpes simplex viruses, lichen planus (a disease of the skin and mucus membranes) and gingivitis (inflammation of the gums).

You can grow your own aloe vera in a pot indoors: the plants are readily available from nurseries. Place it near a window and water when the soil is dry also do not overwater. If you snip off a small length of leaf and squeeze out the gel inside, this can be applied directly to the problem area. Be sure to check first that it is colourless: the bitter yellowish juice is a laxative.

Soft Music Brings You to Slumber

Sleep can sometimes become difficult as we get older.

But a joint study at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, and the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital in Hualien, Taiwan, shows that listening to gentle music at bedtime can help.

Monitoring 60 people aged 60-83 with sleep difficulties, researchers found that spending 45 minutes listening to slow, soft music lowered heart and respiratory rates, improving sleep quality by 26 per cent in the first week, and more as the study went on and the subjects mastered the relaxation technique.

Watch Your Belly

Take a look at your belly. How big is it? Is it round or flat? Hard or soft? The answers to these questions can provide clues about the likelihood of you developing certain conditions such as out-of-whack cholesterol, diabetes or heart disease.

The more fat in the abdominal area, the bigger your waist size tends to be. And a larger waistline is an independent predictor of health risks.

Research has determined that the cut-off point where health risks significantly increase for certain diseases is at 40 inches (102 cm) for men and 35 inches (88 cm) for women. Whether you are classified as “overweight” or “obese” according to your Body Mass Index (BMI)*—or even if you’re in the “normal” range—a waist size at or above these points is associated with a higher risk for type 2 diabetes, abnormal cholesterol levels, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

The bigger your belly is, the more at risk you are of developing these conditions, and the risk increases as your BMI increases. In other words, the more overweight you are, the more problematic it is to have a bigger waistline.

Horizontal Exercise

Is that exercise bike in your bedroom gathering dust? You can still turn the room into a fitness haven – but forget the bike and head straight to bed: Having vigorous sex can burn off about 130 calories per half hour. You can burn off two kilograms a year with 135 lovemaking sessions – that works out to 2.6 times a week.

And there are other health benefits to habitual sex: British researchers who examined 914 middle-age men over 20 years found that frequent sex might help the heart. Moreover, results from a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggest that frequent ejaculation may be related to a lower risk of prostate cancer.

So for the sake of your waist and heart – not to mention a few other body parts – consider the horizontal workout. After all, it’s a lot more fun than heading to the gym.

As written by : Stuart Foxman

Moving Water Detoxifies

Imagine the sound of wave in the beach or the sound a waterfalls are making. Every movement or waves of water causes release of particles and ions.


Water wave is capable of releasing negative ions that is beneficial to support health and healing. Negative ions can pull toxin out from our body. The sound of moving water is natural, it has totally different element from those we hear from machines or other things in busy environment around us. It can become a source of tranquility for our senses.


Try to bring some moving water in your home or workplace. Put aquarium which create sound of rippling water in your living room, or work it out in your garden pond.

Your Skin Hates Coffee

Women who drink more tea, coffee, chocolate, or soda are more likely to suffer from skin impurities and fatigue. Those kind of drink contains caffeine inside which makes it harder for our body to absorb vitamin and mineral from the food we consume everyday. So you'd better limit your consumption of those beverages, instead replace it with plain water. Drinking water helps preventing dehydration that can make our skin looks tired. Pure spring water is the best ingredient for beautiful skin.

Don’t dip tea bags in your teapot for too long

Tea is recognized for having beneficial to health. Tea has also been commonly consumed by many peoples for many generations. Nowadays we see many kinds of tea products that offer practicality to serve, one of them is in form of tea bags. Just few seconds dip of the tea bag into your teapot or cup filled with warm water, and there goes your tea.

Very practical, however be sure that you don’t keep it in your teapot longer than 3-5 minutes.

You must wonder why ? It is because the tea bag material that contains chlorine as disinfectant, preventing bacteria from coming and decompose the tea. Tea bag paper with chlorine looks much cleaner, but in large amount, disinfectant agent is no different than insecticide. Therefore, avoid dipping the tea bag too long or the chlorine will dissolve along in your tea.