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Mutation in either the BRCA1 or the BRCA2 gene, excess estrogen levels in the body, diet, excess weight, alcohol consumption, and cigarette smoking are all risk factors for breast cancer. While there's almost nothing we can do to change hereditary gene mutation, it is within our power to control the other factors and protect our breasts.

Maintain a Healthy Weight

A recent American Cancer Society study of more than 62,000 women found that the more weight women gain after age 18, the greater their risk of developing breast cancer during menopause. Extra pounds increase estrogen production, which can fuel cancer growth. On the other hand, even if you are heavier regular exercise will reduce your risk significantly.

Physical activity is thought to lower the amount of estrogen in the body, thereby lowering your breast cancer, explains Dr. Debbie Saslow, PhD, Director of Breast and Gynecologic Cancer at the American Cancer Society. So get moving. A brisk 30-minute walk five days a week can reduce breast cancer risk by 18 percent, according to a study of more than 74,000 women ages 50 to 79.

Eat Good Fats

High levels of polyunsaturated fat and saturated fat have been linked to breast cancer, so limit these fats in your diet. Opt for more monounsaturated fat, such as olive and canola oils. A study in Sweden of more than 61,000 women between the ages of 40 and 76 showed that consuming an additional 10 grams of monounsaturated fat reduces breast cancer risk by an estimated 45 percent. On the other hand, the study also showed that every extra 5 grams of polyunsaturated fat consumed, increased breast cancer risk by 69 percent. Breast cancer rates are low among women in Spain, Greece, and Italy, and the fact that people in these countries use olive oil as their primary source of fat undoubtedly is a factor in this beneficial result.

Eat Fruits and Vegetables

Carotenoids are powerful antioxidants that protect against cancer, and these are found in a wide variety of fruits and vegetables. Researchers at New York University compared blood samples from 270 women who subsequently developed breast cancer to samples taken from 270 women who did not. They found that women with the lowest levels of carotenoids had twice the risk of breast cancer as found in those with the highest levels. Try to eat five to nine servings (one-half- to one cup) daily of fruit and vegetables, especially carrots, tomatoes, watermelon, and spinach.

Add Flaxseed to Your Diet

These seeds are rich in omega-3 fatty acids, which support cardiovascular health as well as lowering the risk of all types of cancer. Flaxseed also contains high levels of a compound called lignans that may reduce estrogen activity in the body. Studies on rats show that lignans actually shrink breast tumors. To eat flaxseed, sprinkle two to three tablespoons of ground flaxseed on your cereal, add to smoothies, or use flaxseed oil in salad dressing.

Learn to Like Soy

Women in Asia have one-fifth the breast cancer rate of Western women. Scientists believe that the reason is their soy-rich diet. A Japanese study showed that women who ate three or more bowls of miso soup (made with fermented soybeans), reduced their risk by 50 percent over those who had less. Soy foods contain phytoestrogens, compounds that are weak forms of estrogen and may protect against breast cancer. Add one to two servings of soy foods daily to your diet - a cup of soy milk, a half cup of tofu, tempeh, or soy nuts.

Limit Alcohol Intake

Alcohol intake is linked to increased levels of estrogen which fuels cancer. It is recommended that if you drink alcohol occasionally, take 400 micrograms of daily folic acid (the amount found in most multivitamins). A Mayo Clinic study showed that women with the lowest folate (folic acid occurring in fruits and vegetables) intake who drank even a small amount of alcohol daily -- even half a drink -- had a 59 percent increased risk of breast cancer, but a high intake of folate cancelled out the increased risk among moderate drinkers. How folate reduces the risk is not clear, but experts agree that most Americans are not getting enough.

Quit Smoking

Studies show that the younger women are when they first start smoking, the greater their risk of developing breast cancer before menopause. Other studies suggest that women with a family history of breast and ovarian cancer may increase their risk if they smoke. Also current and past smokers who develop breast cancer are twice as likely to get an aggressive form of the disease that is not estrogen-dependent. Similar risk applies with second-hand smoke.

Limit Use of Antibiotics

New evidence suggests that the more often you take antibiotics, the higher your breast cancer risk. A study of more than 10,000 women revealed that the risk of breast cancer is doubled among those who took antibiotics for more than 500 cumulative days (the equivalent of about 25 prescriptions) over an average of 17 years compared with women who never took antibiotics. Researchers caution, however, that other factors, such as underlying illness, weakened immune system, or hormonal imbalance, could account for the increased risk.

Opt to Breast-Feed

Not only is it good for your infant, but lactation also suppresses ovulation and the production of estrogen. Researchers compared the birth rates and breast-feeding practices among women in developed countries with women in developing nations in Asia and Africa and found that the breast cancer risk in developed countries could be cut in half if women had as many babies and breast-fed each child for an average of 30 months per child as women in developing countries. Breast-feeding alone would reduce the risk by two-thirds. They also found that for each year a woman breast-feeds, her breast cancer risk dropped 4 percent.

Source: American Breast Cancer Association The Mayo Clinic

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When you're the linear-thinking parent of an ADD child, it's difficult to relate to your child's behaviors. You undoubtedly feel every pain of attention deficit, but maybe you aren't quite sure how to deal with it, especially when you child is very young. If you're an ADD parent of an ADD child, at least you can remember what being a kid with attention deficit was like, and maybe you've learned some ADD-friendly ways to cope with attention deficit that you can pass along. But then again, maybe you don't even realize that you have attention deficit yourself. Well, whatever situation you find you belong in, here are a few tips to help:

1) Make things simple: Don't send your kids into another room to get a pen, a piece of paper, and an envelope. They'll forget at least one of the three and have to go back to get what they forgot. To save frustration, send them for one thing at a time. Because they can manage to come back with that one item, when they do, they'll feel happy if you tell them what a great job they did. Rather than deflating their self-esteem, you'll be pumping it up.

2) Get a game going: Try involving the whole family in this strategy. Make sure that people get extra points for positive behaviors, and that points are deducted when someone breaks a rule or doesn't take their turn in the proper order.

3) Know your child's teacher: Be sure to get all the pertinent information about your child's classes at school. Ask for due dates of specific assignments, quizzes, and anything else that you child needs to remember.

4) Provide sanctuary: Your children suffer frustration every day, and it stems from within themselves, from their peers, and perhaps from their teachers. Allow them some downtime to unwind when they get home. Make sure that they have a room of their own or a special place they can go to be alone for a while to help them feel less stressed.

5) Make them feel successful: First, find out what your child is good at. It may take a while to decide what it is, but maybe they're artists, musicians, or good with technology. Whatever that is, support them in that area and lavish praise on them when they do something well to boost their self-esteem.

You can use these 5 tips to help make your child's life better, as well as your own. But it won't happen overnight. You'll have to be consistent in applying these techniques, and through a slow process will your child begin to improve. Some kids will be lucky enough to control the symptoms of attention deficit as they're older. Some of them turn into ADD adults. Learn more coping mechanisms for parents and adults at Instant ADD Success.com

Tellman Knudson is CEO of OvercomeEverything, Inc. and a certified hypnotherapist and NLP practitioner who has helped many clients--young and old--achieve ADD Success. Sign up for Tellmans Free Weekly Success Tips when you visit InstantADDSuccess.com at http://www.instantaddsuccess.com

Bharat Bhushan is the kind of guy everyone must have encountered at least once he sings loudly in a bus, shows his scrapbook to everyone, has a hahaha laugh and oily hair. In using a French comedy (The Dinner Game by Francis Veber) as his source and placing Bharat Bhushan at the centre, is an inspired bit of adaptation on the part of debut filmmaker Sagar Ballary. And Vinay Pathak is perfectly cast as the Idiot in Bheja Fry. Music baron Ranjeet Thadani and his bored rich pals, play a game they invite an "Idiot" to dinner every weekend, and have fun at his expense. The guy has no clue why he is in such an august gathering. Bharat Bhushan comes with a high recommendation from someone who has suffered his company, and Ranjeet invites him as his idiot of the week.

But before the thrilled tax inspector can arrive, Ranjeet throws his back, his wife (Sarika) leaves in a temper and so he is left all night at the mercy of the helpful Bharat Bhushan, who proceeds to wreck his life from inadvertently calling Ranjeets mistress (Bhairavi Goswami) instead of the doctor, then driving away the wife believing her to be the mistress; inviting Ranjeets rival (Milind Soman) to gloat at his misery and his tax inspector buddy (Ranvir Shorey, gross) to have a close-up look at his wealth.

Bharat Bhushan is a nightmare, and because he has no idea just how annoying he is, he is also endearing. Little things like being thrilled at the redial facility on a phone, to the solemn ceremony with which he takes out his ridiculous scrap book from its noisy plastic bag how can anyone dislike a man like that.

The film has a stagey, too schematic quality to it, but it is intermittently amusing, mainly because Pathak makes up with his enthusiasm for the lack of vitality in the other actors. Can be watched without getting the brain fried too much but with a lot of English dialogue, it is obviously targeting the urban multiplex audience.

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In 1996/7, and I cant remember which year exactly, I met Cathy ODowd at a Computer Faire in Durban, South Africa. She was there to honour a sponsorship by Apple. Cathy ODowd was a member of the first South African Everest Expedition. Her team followed the route made famous by Edmund Hillary. She reached the summit on May 25, 1996. Apple had provided some sponsorship, computers etc to the expedition. She was at the Faire to talk about her climb and to give Apple some exposure.

The year 1996 was not a good year for climbing Mt Everest. During the climbing season, fifteen people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest single year in the history of Mt Everest. For the novice Cathy ODowd, to have people dying was a terrible experience. It was a harsh introduction as 37 year-old British team-member and photographer Bruce Herrod died on the descent.

What she suffered the most from, was people attacking her and the rest of the parties who survived. The question she was constantly asked was why not more had been done to save the people who had died. She maintained that there was absolutely nothing that could have been done for these people and further it would have put the lives, of the people who actually made it back, in jeopardy. Her pain in defending her stance was very apparent. She certainly did not take the loss of the team member lightly.

I certainly do not blame Cathy ODowd for the death of people during her climb, or anybody else. However, I just have a question mark as to what distinguishes human beings from the animal kingdom, or other aware entities. And I always think the difference is the compassion humans have towards other human beings.

This could be in the form of the young soldier in Iraq who threw himself onto a grenade so that the others in his team were spared. Or it could be a mother giving one of her organs to her child with a disease. It could be as basic as the youngster standing up in a bus for an elderly person or the teacher in the recent United States school shooting who was killed while trying to protect his scholars.

This compassion was shown again on the latest Mt Everest climbing expedition. A Nepalese climber left to die on Everest by her team was saved today by an American guide and his sherpa who happened to pass her way after returning from their successful summit.

The two gave up their oxygen for her and struggled for 12 hours to pull her down the mountain. During this ordeal they watched another woman fall 1 000m to her death. What is even more extraordinary is the fact that they didnt actually think that the woman they were rescuing would make it. She has in fact recovered from her ordeal.

So what does it mean to be a human being? A disregard for other people, while on a quest and on a mission to achieve ones own goal, with a minimum consideration for the odds of somebody elses survival? Or is it a sign of humanity if one disregards ones own personal safety and in some cases ones own life, to help another person. I know which one I would go for if asked, what about you?

Anja Merret lives in Brighton, UK. Her personal blog http://www.anjamerret.com allows her to voice opinions on issues that interest her and observations she makes.

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Cleopatra was renown for her beauty. She seduced Julius Caesar and then Mark Anthony. That alone should be proof that she must have been the most beautiful woman in her time.

Yet British archeologists unearthed silver coins that say otherwise. Her image on those plains were far from the ravishing beauty one expects to see. So why did the two most powerful men in her time fall for her?

For one thing, she was the queen of Egypt. Then again, her suitors ruled the Roman Empire. They could have had any woman they wanted.

There are several possibilities. Maybe society's perception of beautiful features in those days are different from modern society's view. Look at the 17th century paintings of nude beauties drawn by Ruben. In those days, those women were considered great beauties. Today, women like that would be considered fat and not beautiful by modern standards. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

One thing remains the same through the ages. Beauty is linked to healthy skin. The women in Ruben's paintings had gorgeous skin that glowed. Cleopatra and other egyptian queens are known to follow beauty regimes that focus on giving them beautiful skin. Baths in milk and honey. The use of aloe vera for their skin. All these treatments result in smooth, beautiful skin.

Let's start with milk and honey. Cleopatra is said to have bathed in milk and honey baths. Milk contains lactic acid, a form of alpha hydroxy acid which you would find in today's beauty products. It exfoliates the skin, removing the dead skin cells, causing the younger skin to emerge.

Honey is a humectant. It attracts water which makes it a wonderful moisturizer.

Bathing daily in milk and honey would give you smooth, younger, softer skin. If you have a bath tub, you can indulge in a milk and honey bath yourself.

1. Fill the bath with warm water

2. Add 4 cups of full cream milk powder for a really rich milk bath.

3. Add 1 cup of honey.

4. Wash yourself with soap and water and shampoo and rinse your hair before you enter the bath.

5. Relax and soak in the milk and honey bath for as long as you like.

The other beauty treatment that Cleopatra is said to have used have used aloe vera on her skin. So did Queen Nefertiti.

Aloe vera gel actually heals the skin from eczema or other skin diseases. It even clears the skin from acne, thanks to the sulfur and salicylic acid found in it. Both sulfur and salicylic acid are used topically to treat acne. Aloe vera itself is rich in anti-oxidants which are known for their anti-aging properties. That's not all. It has anti-inflammatory properties, anti-bacterial properties and heals the skin without leaving scars. Using aloe vera topically also leads to clearer, fairer and healthier skin and healthy skin is considered beautiful throughout history.

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Now days so many kids are playing games on the computer, and others are entranced by television, and you may be wondering as a parent if board games are still a good option for kids. Yes, they definitely are, and playing educational board games with your kids is a great idea. In today's world, many families are growing further and further apart; everyone doing their own thing. Board games can help to bring your family all together again for some fun, and not only that, but they are also very educational as well. If you are ready to get your family interacting with each other, then board games are a great idea.

You can use board games to teach your kids a variety of things in life. One example is the game called Settlers of Canaan, which is a Bible based board game. This type of a game is great for teaching your kids more about the Bible and helping them to see that the Bible is more than just a book they hear about in church. Also, for younger children you can use board games to teach them language skills or simple math skills as well.

Another game that you may have never considered, is the game of Chess. This can be a great game to play with your kids. Your kids will learn about how to come up with strategies and it also will teach them how to think logically and creatively as well. If you child seems curious about the game, then why not go ahead and teach them how to play and have some fun.

Believe it or not, computer games can be educational for your children as well, as long as the parents are involved. Be sure that you do not just give your child an educational computer game and then send them on their way, which is easy to do. Often you will find that using board games instead of computer games is a much better way to provide your kids with educational fun while interacting together as well. When you play board games together as a family, isolation will no longer be the problem it used to be, and no doubt you will all have a great time.

While you may think that board games are outdated and boring, they have actually come quite a ways in the past few years. There are many great board games out there that are fun and educational as well. These games help to make learning fun, and will provide entertainment for the entire family as well. If you pick the right board games, you can actually teach your kids various fundamentals like math, language, and even values without them knowing it.

Making memories together is important, and one way that you can do this is to start playing board games together as a family. No doubt they will memories that you all will cherish in the future.

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The average age that people live to in the western world is steadily increasing as medical advances continue at pace. This has led to many people wanting to find solutions to help them to stay looking young for longer periods. A new market has been borne, one of anti ageing products and advice.

We are often shown pictures and images in the media and on our television screens, of famous people who look far younger than they actually are. Most people marvel at them and wonder how they have managed to keep up their youthful appearance, despite their advancing age. They then want to emulate these famous people by finding ways in which they too can delay this ageing process.

Top cosmetic companies are now hiring some of these people to help them to advertise their own anti ageing products. Products such as wrinkle cream are becoming big business and are being marketed in such a way that makes people believe that it will help them to stay looking young for longer. These products are not that cheap however and for how many years are we supposed to keep using these creams for example? The cost could soon mount up causing certain people to stress, this itself could easily lead to even more wrinkles!

I am sure that some of these products are beneficial and are very popular, however we are not all in the position where we can keep buying them each week or each month.

In my opinion there are a number of simple steps that we can follow to delay this ageing process, steps that actually will not cost us anything.

Too much exposure to the sun can be a very bad thing and can have the affect of speeding up the ageing process. Sun beds are also known, from what I have read, to be a cause of wrinkles, if over used. Therefore avoid too much sun and sun beds!

A lot of people in the western world work far too hard in my opinion, in a quest to earn more money. They can lose valuable sleep by doing this and the stress of the work is also likely to have a damaging affect on the ageing process. Obtaining plenty of sleep is important for people wanting to delay this ageing process, as is attempting to live as stress-free a life as possible.

I would also advise people to look after their own health. Smoking cigarettes is certainly not going to help people to stay looking young. Taking regular exercise such as swimming or jogging is likely to help however.

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