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Are you interested in understanding how your daily lifestyle choices, nutrition, emotional wellbeing, and environment affect the health of your breasts? The Breast Health Foundation brings you the latest research and information to answer these, and other, vital breast health questions. Established in New Zealand in 2010, the Breast Health Foundation is a non profit …
What will YOU gain from joining the Breast Health Foundation?
Access to the most up to date breast health information and research including: nutrition as medicine the role of lifestyle in keeping you well (exercise, stress reduction, etc.) The role of thoughts and emotions in maintaining health The role of the environment in your health The role of hormones in breast health and how you …
Breast Health Awareness
Being breast health aware means being familiar with how your breasts look and feel, whatever your age. Your breasts may change at different times during the month and as you get older, but if you are aware of this, you will be able to recognise if a change is ‘normal for you’ or not. These …
Breast Health – Your Life is in your hands
One in nine New Zealand women is now being diagnosed with breast cancer. Last year women 2300 faced the shock of this diagnosis, and 650 died from this disease. Much of the breast cancer awareness emphasis revolves not around prevention, but rather early detection through regular mammographic screening. And yet, we already know so much about the causes of …
Breast Feeding Benefits from Top to Bottom
Breastfeeding is good for every part of baby’s body–from the brain to the diaper area. Brain: Higher IQ in breastfed children. Cholesterol and other types of fat in human milk support the growth of nerve tissue. Eyes: Visual acuity is higher in babies fed human milk. Ears: Breastfed babies get fewer ear infections. Mouth: Less …
Hormone Replacement Therapy
Do synthetic hormones such as the oral contraceptive pill and HRT increase your risk of breast cancer? This question has stimulated controversy and debate for decades. A number of studies have suggested a connection between synthetic hormone use and breast cancer, while others have refuted any such link. Partly this is because both “the pill” …
What do you know about the importance of diet?
Courtesy of John Appleton – March 2005 Download files for this article: Importance of Diet
‘Get to know your breasts’, says TV presenter Diana Binks
Diana Binks is a television sports presenter and currently presents late night Sport on Five. Ten years ago Diana, found a lump in her left breast. Fortunately for Diana, it wasn’t cancer, but her experience made her much more conscious about her breast health. In her early thirties at the time, Diana discovered the pea-sized …
Exercise and Breast Health
Everyone knows that we need to exercise regularly in order to stay well and avoid the major killers of obesity, heart disease, and diabetes. Not so many know that this same exercise will help to reduce your risk of a number of common cancers including breast and prostate cancer. While there have been some conflicting …
Pesticides and Breast Cancer: A Wake Up Call
Breast cancer incidence rose 30-40 percent from the 1970s to the 1990s and rates continue to escalate in the Asia Pacific region. New Zealand has one of the highest rates in the world. New Zealand’s Dr Meriel Watts set out to identify what synthetic chemicals may be contributing to breast cancer. Her research took three …