10 Child Cancer Prevention Tips You Should Know

We recently posted an article on the 5 common cancers in children that parents should know, after being familiar with these types of cancer, the next thing is to prevent them from happening. The 10 tips explained below will guide you on how to prevent child cancer.

Breast feed them longer. Nine months at least – it builds their immune systems for life (and will also help protect mum from breast cancer)
Don´t ever smoke. Kids look up to their parents and copy them. Never allow anyone in your family to smoke and don´t allow smoking in your home.
Tell them to eat fruit! A study showed that those kids who didn´t eat fruit at all, always went on to develop cancer later in life
Cut out salt and sugar. Don´t bring the foods home. Salt poisons healthy cells and sugar feeds cancer cells. So cut down on processed or packaged foods, soy sauce, Chinese food, canned food – eat fresh. Remember refined wheat, white bread and white pasta are just sugar by another name! (Read the Rainbow Diet and give them colourful foods)
Don´t use in-home herbicides or pesticides. They increase the risk of child cancers like lymphoma, and leukaemia. For example, head lice shampoos, garden sprays, flea sprays or flea collars on your animals: Linked to increased risk of child brain tumours and leukaemias.
Avoid antibiotics and mercury based vaccines. Antibiotics kill off friendly bacteria in the body, the front line of the immune system, and part of their immune memory. Mercury-based vaccines can also damage the immune systems of the young
Avoid antibiotics and mercury based vaccines. Antibiotics kill off friendly bacteria in the body, the front line of the immune system, and part of their immune memory. Mercury-based vaccines can also damage the immune systems of the young
Make them take exercise. Play Station or The Simpsons are unlikely to move their lymph or oxygenate their blood!!
Create a happy, laughter filled house. Laughing moves their lymph and boosts their immune systems. And don´t ever make them feel guilty. Guilt and depression are two significant causes of cancer.
Teach them to practice safe sex. Sexually transmitted bacteria and viruses are now known to cause cancers like cervical and ovarian.