How Healthy Is Your  Bowel?   

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Bowel cancer can affect anyone, but if you do some things such as maintain a   
healthy weight and adjust your diet you can definitely minimize or even avoid
this deadly disease.

Bowel cancer is one of the forgotten cancers and often ignored, while others such as breast, cervical and prostate cancers are very common and gain huge public awareness.  It is one of our four most common cancers and really carries a potential death sentence if you don’t find out early enough.  In Australsia alone there is more than 15,000 new cases of bowel cancer diagnosed every year, with over 5,300 people losing their lives annually to this disease. 

What And Where Is Your Bowel?

Mostly we call it our gut, which is a 6 mtr long tube of muscle that is situated between the rectum and  the stomach and is made up of 2 parts:

• the small intestine – cancer of the small intestine is very rare
• the large intestine – this is where colon cancer and bowel cancer are usually located

Bowel cancer symptoms are first noticable because of very small mushroom like growths call polyps that grow in the large intestine.  These are likely to be discovered during a routine colonoscopy, however only approxiametly 5% go on and become cancerous.  Polyps are quite a common occurance and the small number that become cancerous do so slowly over 5 to 10 years.   Once discovered they are usually removed immediately to reduce any risk of colon cancer.

Most Likely Affected By Bowel Cancer

Almost anyone can be affected by bowel cancer, however some people have an increased risk of developing the disease; 

• If you have a parent, brother or sister, especially if diagnosed before the age of 50, who has suffered from bowel cancer your risk will increase dramatically. 
• Irritable bowel syndrome and inflammatory bowel condition (Crohn’s disease) or ulcerative colitis (if you’ve had for 14 or more years) can also make you more susceptible to bowel cancer.
• The older you get your risk of developing cancer bowel increases – most cases are diagnosed in people over 60
• Men are more susceptible to cancer of bowel than women. 

How Do You Know You Have Cancer Of The Bowel? 

There is really only one way to accurately assess the health of your bowel and that is bowel cancer screening  by undergoing a colonoscopy.  It is then possible for pre-cancerous changes, polyps and cancers be be noticed and then any suspect tissue can be removed for analysis.  As with a lot of other cancers if it’s found in it’s early stages of growth, and before it’s spread from the bowel, it can often be treated successfully. 

Following are two of the main bowel symptoms and signs.  If you notice suffer either of these than always get them investigated by your doctor or GP;

• Passing blood with a bowel motion
• A change in your bowel habits – such as constipation or frequent loose stools that last more than 2 weeks

How To Reduce Your Colon Cancer Risk 

Change To A High Fibre Diet
If you have a high fiber diet that will reduce your risk of bowel cancer.  The fibre in your bowels will be broken down to a type of fatty acid that helps to keep the walls of your stomach healthy and it also slows down the growth and spread of cancer cells.

One way to boost the fibre is by eating lots of high fibre foods such as  whole-grain bread and cereal, fruit and vegetables and legumes, lentels and beans.  There is now research which also suggests that onions, garlic, watercress and broccoli may also have positive benefits.

Including at least 18 grams of fiber in your daily diet will assist greatly, but if you do that you will also need to drink lots of water otherwise you might seize up and become constipated because of the increased consumption of fibre. 

Monitor Your Weight – Exercise More
All studies show that there is a very strong link between people suffering from obesity and those with colon cancer, more so with men who increase their risks by 50%.  Men that are overweight still have a 25% greater chance of having colon cancer. 

Reviews of studies carried out in 2001 and involving in excess of 100,000 people, found that regular exercise can reduce the bowel cancer risk by as much as 50%.  You would need to walk, run or excercise aerobically for at least 30 minutes each day to achieve this reduction.

Reduce Your Meat Consumption
It’s important to keep saturated fat intake as low as low as you can and you can do that by restricting your consumption of meat and buying low fat dairy products.  If you can restrict your red meat consumption to less than 500 grams per week that will really help. 

Again research shows that there is a clear correlation between consumption of processed meats such as deli meats, sausages and bacon and bowel and colon cancer.  If you eat just one sausage and 3 rashers of bacon per day this could increase your cancer risk by 20%. 

Eat Fish Instead Of Steak
The results of a study into Cancer and Nutrition between 1993 to 1999 which surveyed 500,000 people, found that those that eat fish every second day reduce the risk of bowel cancer risk by 33%, compared to those that eat fish only once every 2 weeks.  So my advice is to increase your fish consumption straight away!

Increase vitamin D Intake
There are new studies which seem to reveal that having a Vitamin D deficiency will increase your risk of bowel cancer.  If you’re not sure get your doctor to do blood tests to check your Vitamin D levels. 

New studies also show that we might be covering up too much to stop getting sunburnt and possible skin cancer.  But that is one of the reasons so many are now lacking in Vitamin D, so 10 – 20 minutes of sunshine (not cloudy) between 11am and 2pm daily, without a hat or screeds of suntan lotion will really help your Vitamin D levels.  For every 1 person that dies from Melanomia there are 25 deaths from cancers that could’ve been partially caused by lack of Vitamin D.  You really need to apply some commonsense with this one.

Reduce Alcohol Consumption
If you drink 5 or more units of alcohol a day, you increase the risks of developing colon cancer by up to 40%.  So again it’s wise to reduce or have a few days per week without alcohol.

Bowel And Colon Cleanse
It is a very good idea to do a thorough bowel/colon cleanse at least every couple of years.  Some advocate doing it every year. 

Human waste is a sinister world of monstrous creatures that feed on living flesh- Parasites.  Parasites feed on humans and your body may house more than you know. 

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• Safely Relieve Constipation
• Stop Occasional Bloating & Gas
• Reduce Water Retention
• Break up Fecal Matter
• Support Colon Health
• Increase Your Energy
• Lose weight

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