Breast Cancer Awareness Month has already quickly gone by.. Â While I believe this month is a great way to show your support for yourself or loved ones who have had the disease I think the focus of the month needs to change.
Sadly, October has not become a time of increasing awareness of the preventable causes of breast cancer.  Instead, as Dr. Mercola stated and I agree, ‘it has fed the breast cancer industry’s insatiable need to raise money for research into a pharmaceutical cure, and to promote its primary means of “prevention”: early detection via x-ray mammography.’
Instead of focusing on raising money for a pharmaceutical cure, October should be a month devoted to educating women on the causes and prevention of breast cancer. Â This shift would greatly empower women and help them realize that they are in control. Â Industries need to focus on this underlying message instead of getting wrapped up in ‘pink’ everything.
Many people believe that there is little, if anything, that can be done to prevent breast cancer.  But as I’ve written in my past posts, this couldn’t be farther from the truth!  Like so many cancers, breast cancer prevention can be greatly increased with a personal commitment to better health through dietary changes, exercise and an avoidance of toxins.Â
Next Year (and every day for the matter!) our focus should be on P-R-E-V-E-N-T-I-O-N. Â
As women, we should not only take a month out of our lives to remember Breast Cancer but focus every single day on what we can do to promote overall health and wellness in our lives.
Love yourself and treat your body (and your breasts!) right.
Be Well,
Tammy Kohlschmidt RDH, CCT, CBP
