It is not often that you hear the word ‘cancer’ used openly unless there is good reason. It is a word that fills most people with dread and foreboding. Cancer can be a subject that is not discussed even although there have been enormous advances in the treatment of the disease.
Cancer can be a very emotional subject, but we would be far better off concentrating on more positive aspects like the prevention of the disease. ‘Cancer is not a fate, it is a matter of risk, and you can adjust those risks by the way you behave’. These are the wise words of Prof. Martin Wiseman of the World Cancer Research Fund.
It is a sad fact that too few of us make the link between behavior and the disease. For example, the link between obesity, or being overweight and cancer is well known – there are six cancers that are linked to excess body fat – but we are in the middle of a worldwide obesity crisis.
It is a sobering fact that the ‘bill always has to be paid’. One element of the bill that will have to be paid for the current obesity epidemic is a rise in the number of weight related cancers that will surface in the coming years.
Never before has there been such a pressing need for people to lose weight. It is a very sad fact that so many overweight people are going to develop cancer: sad because so many of them have tried hard to lose weight by dieting. Unfortunately, diets only ever deliver short-term weight loss. What is needed is permanent weight loss.
Is there an answer? Yes, there is! Losing weight permanently is all about changing behavior. If you carry on in the same old way, you will never lose weight. You have to make change.
The thing that you have to do is to recoginze the bad habits that make you fat. The next thing is to learn new habits, slim habits.
The important thing to remember is that you can’t change your habits because they are hotwired onto your brain. You have to learn new habits. This is the way to make change, to change your behavior. When you learn new slim habits it will help you to change your eating and lifestyle habits so that you can live a slim, healthy, disease free life.
