Healthful Tips on Preventing Cancer For the New Year

Dec. 1, 2014 – Pete Davignon Can-Sirs Executive Director

We talk about routine health care being the best way to prevent getting cancer. The price men pay for ignoring routine checkups and a healthy diet is a great risk for poor health. Some will avoid tests at all costs “but if it’s the difference between being dead and being alive” annual checkups are not to be ignored.

Prostate cancer is the most common cancer other than non-melanoma skin cancer in men. Prostate cancer is also the second cause of death among men, behind lung cancer. Most men will not die of prostrate cancer. Their survival rate approaches 100 percent.

Here’s how to improve your odds of living a healthy life:

FOLLOW THE RAINBOW: Increasing colorful fruits and vegetable to your diet may reduce your risk of cancer.

GO NUTS: Nuts, olive oil and whole grains pack satisfaction as well as nutrition.

HANG UP THE CAR KEYS: Spur yourself to walk as much as possible. Reducing you driving by a mile would have the same effect as cutting as much as 100 calories each day from your diet. Walking each day is an easy way to lose weight and improve health.

MIND THE MOMENT: Spend some quiet time. Ease anxiety and stress by taking a few moments each day to meditate and reflect. A little relaxation can reduce stress caused by your everyday tasks. Sit back and take a few deep breaths and relax.

TAKE CARE: We are all well informed about cancer by TV and print media. We hear about friends and neighbors being diagnosed with cancer. The best way for us to prevent becoming a cancer victim is to regiment ourselves to keep a healthy diet and get plenty of exercise. Playing a lot of softball is good exercise.

Those of us who are cancer survivors or have a family member with cancer are available to openly discuss cancer matters with anyone who would like to learn more about cancer and prevention,.

CAN-Sirs has spent the last five years working on reminding senior softball player and others about awareness and prevention of cancer. We entered teams in many senior tournaments in California and other states during this time.

We have held CAN-Sirs benefit tournaments in Elk Grove, Calif., starting with 18 teams and last year had more than 40 teams entered. This benefit tournament is the major fund raiser to offset the costs of operating the cancer program. This year the CAN-Sirs Benefit Tournament will be held in Elk Grove on May 16-17. We welcome all senior teams to participate.

We expanded our awareness and prevention program into tournaments in two new states. Two teams from the Oshkosh Ambassadors Senior Softball group entered a senior tournament as CAN-Sirs teams. The teams were managed by Mike and Linda Muehrer from Oshkosh, Wisc.. The RECNAC CAN-Sirs from Augusta, Ga., played in the ASA Nationals in Burlington, N.C. The team was managed by Terry Leiden.

CAN-Sirs staff thanks all senior softball players and friends for their support this past year. Best wishes for a happy and healthy new year.

More information is available at can-sirs.org. Email us at can-sirs@att.net. Donations may be mailed to:

CAN-Sirs, Inc, 2485 Notre Dame Blvd #370-180, Chico, CA 95928.