Your genes are not your medical destiny

With relatively uncommon exception, that is the rule established by ground-breaking research published over recent years, and nicely illustrated by a 2008 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. That rule could, and perhaps should, remake the way you play the game of life.

Read more here.

American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention

American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention.

ACS Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention

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Full details of the ACS guidelines ranging from whole grains, fats, alcohol, and daily goals for exercise—to the lifestyle changes that may help prevent breast, colon and other specific cancers.

• American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention
• Summary of the ACS Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity
• ACS Guidelines for Nutrition and Physical Activity
• Food additives, safety, and organic foods
• Diet and activity factors that affect risks for certain cancers
• Common questions about diet and cancer

Exercise interventions on health-related quality of life for people with cancer during active treatment

Exercise interventions on health-related quality of life for people with cancer during active treatment.

Mishra SI1, Scherer RW, Snyder C, Geigle PM, Berlanstein DR, Topaloglu O.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2012 Aug 15;8:CD008465. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD008465.pub2.

Can Physical Therapy help Angelina Jolie?

We all heard recently the story of Angelina Jolie and her decision to have a double mastectomy operation in order to minimize the possibilities to have breast cancer.

Did you know that Physical Therapy is recommended after this kind of operation? Dr. Dimitrios Kostopoulos co-founder of www.handsonpt.org is giving a brief talk on why this is true.