All tobacco use is responsible for nearly 1/3 of all cancer deaths. If you smoke stop!! If you have relatives or friends who smoke, encourage them to stop smoking also. Do you ‘dip’ or ‘chew’? You need to stop that as well. It can make a world of difference.
Because you are a person of color does not excuse you from the ‘ills’ of exposing yourself to carcegens that may lea to skin cancer. Everybody needs to shield themselvesd from the direct rays of the sun. ‘Sun worshippers… beware.’
A Hint to the Wise is Sufficient…
The breakfast offerings at a church in Durham, N. C. haven’t changed much over the years. Aside from the yogurt, there still are scrambled eggs, bacon, biscuits, waffles and syrup on a table in the dining hall.
Yet if the church is going to offer its members abundant life in addition to an afterlife, it’s going to have to change its menu. Over 50 %, if not more, of the people in this church suffer from diabetes and other life threatening diseases. (Member at Lane fall into those percentages if not higher.) A weekly helping of these foods may not only aggravate their symptoms, it may be deadly. But church members in North Carolina, now, have a greater incentive to make changes.
St. John Baptist Church, along with a dozen other African-American churches in Durham, is participating in a research project at Duke University aimed at improving the health of blacks suffering from diabetes. Its plan is to establish a social support group in the churches, hold educational forums, teach healthy food preparation and teach participants how to get the most out of their doctor visits.
Well Lane…how do we measure up?
All information taken from A Comprehensive Action Plan for Missouri: 2004, A Reality of Cancer in Missouri. This booklet was prepard by the Missouri Cancer Consortium and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.
·More people are overweight and obese and physically activity, although increasing is not where it sould be.
· Youth smoking was on the rise during much of 1990s but has shown declines since 1997.
· Unexplained cancer-related health disparities remain among population and subgroups. For example, African Americans and people with socioeconomic status have the highest rates of both new cancers and cancer deaths.
