Diet and Colon Cancer Term Paper

Colon Health

Statement of the theme

risk factors

prevention

Diet

Exercise

Dietary supplementation

No one really wants to talk about the subject of their colons. We all started out life with one, most of ours are working very well as we sit here today. But though speaking about the colon seems to be dirty or disagreeable, it is very important that we all pay attention to the colon. Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer death in the United States. It is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer among men and women within North America. And I am sad to say that 90% of all the patients who die because of colon cancer could probably have prevented their deaths, though a combination of healthy diet and simple diagnostic testing.

STATEMENT OF THE THEME: Many people think that they are not at risk for colon cancer.It is true that it is most likely found in those patients over fifty years of age. But the things that we do to our bodies in the decades preceding our fifties can have a great impact on whether we develop colon cancer or not. Of course, genetic predisposition to colon cancer is something that none of us can prevent. It has been proven that a person with a primary family member (meaning a parent, sibling or child with colon cancer or the development of precancerous polyps has two to four times the risk of developing But even knowing this, there are things that we can do to protect ourselves and reduce our risk of dying from

We can definitely work to reduce our risk over a lifetime of developing colon cancer by following a proper diet, engaging in regular….....