Over 40% of cancers due to lifestyle, says review

This is from Michelle Roberts at the BBC

Nearly half of cancers diagnosed in the UK each year - over 130,000 in total - are caused by avoidable life choices including smoking, drinking and eating the wrong things, a review reveals.

Tobacco is the biggest culprit, causing 23% of cases in men and 15.6% in women, says the Cancer Research UK report.

Next comes a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables in men's diets, while for women it is being overweight.

The report is published in the British Journal of Cancer.

Its authors claim it is the most comprehensive analysis to date on the subject.

Lead author Prof Max Parkin said: "Many people believe cancer is down to fate or 'in the genes' and that it is the luck of the draw whether they get it.

"Looking at all the evidence, it's clear that around 40% of all cancers are caused by things we mostly have the power to change."

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We didn't expect to find that eating fruit and vegetables would prove to be so important in protecting men against cancer”

Prof Max Parkin

For men, the best advice appears to be: stop smoking, eat more fruit and veg and cut down on how much alcohol you drink.

For women, again, the reviews says the best advice is to stop smoking, but also watch your weight.

Prof Parkin said: "We didn't expect to find that eating fruit and vegetables would prove to be so important in protecting men against cancer. And among women we didn't expect being overweight to be more of a risk factor than alcohol."

In total, 14 lifestyle and environmental factors, such as where you live and the job you do, combine to cause 134,000 cancers in the UK each year.

About 100,000 (34%) of the cancers are linked to smoking, diet, alcohol and excess weight.

One in 25 of cancers is linked to a person's job, such as being exposed to chemicals or asbestos.

Some risk factors are well established, such as smoking's link with lung cancer.

But others are less recognised.

For example, for breast cancer, nearly a 10th of the risk comes from being overweight or obese, far outweighing the impact of whether or not the woman breastfeeds or drinks alcohol.

And for oesophageal or gullet cancer, half of the risk comes from eating too little fruit and veg, while only a fifth of the risk is from alcohol, the report shows.

For stomach cancer, a fifth of the risk comes from having too much salt in the diet, data suggests.

Some cancers, like mouth and throat cancer, are caused almost entirely by lifestyle choices.

If you want to stop smoking, please contact me at patrick@calmhorizon.co.uk for your free report into the effectiveness of hypnotherapy as part of a stop smoking programme.

Best wishes

Patrick

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Dieting is a Regime. Healthy Eating is a Life.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-14882832

Check out this article. I have worked with many people who wish to lose weight or lead a more healthy lifestyle. I have yet to meet someone who does not know what there are meant to be eating from and quality and quantity perspective. The article talks about habits, conditioned responses that develop through repetition and often familiarity to a situation ( lying down watching a movie). I read that snacking on the sofa whilst watching TV can go unnoticed to the point of actually eating more at mealtime unaware that you have been on a Doritto frenzy a few minutes earlier.

Hypnosis does not make you lose weight. No there is no research to support it at all. However, allowing your beliefs and judgement to subside when relaxed is a great way of clearing your mind of old habits and forming new ones. Hypnosis is just one way to suspend our conscious beliefs. The cognitive behavioural statements and actions of intent we have towards ourselves and food itself are a clearer and more effective way of changing eating habits because there is an acceptance and understanding to change.

Diets are no good, healthy eating is.

Best wishes

Patrick

In The Moment- Strategic Thinking

What is going on in your life NOW? Much has been written about the power of the present moment. That split second you feel, calm, connected, focussed, accepting, proactive,instinctive. Lets address each of these experiential states one at a time;

1) Calm- Physiologically your mind and body are in an optimum state of function for thought and action.The flight or fight hormones are safely stored away which leads us to

2) Connected- That level of awareness that you can get on holiday, when you meditate or when you are just sitting in your garden watching the Bees pollinate the flowers. This stillness creates a state of

3) Focus- You can take in the minutae of detail, your attention span is comfortable and you absorb information through all of your sensory modalities far more easily. Within your mind you feel

4) Accepting- Being in the here and now requires a degree of comfort within your own skin. Aunt Agnes said you were a failure 30 years ago, somehow this just does not matter. This allows you the freedom to be

5) Proactive- Clear decision making seems to be quicker,in time with events rather than delayed reactive response. From this you can be more

6) Instinctive- Action through feeling rather than thinking. we all have gut feelings,heart felt desires and ideas that just pop into our consciousness without is thinking too much about them, but they are just what we need now.

So the next time you want to make a decision, really allow your body to relax, become aware of all your senses,focus on the decison options, what they are and what they are not. You can then call up your experience, skills and unlimited imagination and make that decision NOW.

Welcome to In the Moment Strategic Thinking. More soon.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Hypnotherapy-BBC.co.uk 18th March 2010

Hypnotherapy 'can help' irritable bowel syndrome

Irritable bowel syndrome causes abdominal pain and bloating
Greater use of hypnotherapy to ease the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome would help sufferers and might save money, says a gastroenterologist.

Dr Roland Valori, editor of Frontline Gastroenterology, said of the first 100 of his patients treated, symptoms improved significantly for nine in 10.

He said that although previous research has shown hypnotherapy is effective for IBS sufferers, it is not widely used.

This may be because doctors simply do not believe it works.

Widely ignored

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a common gut problem which can cause abdominal pain, bloating, and sometimes diarrhoea or constipation.

Dr Valori, of Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, said the research evidence which shows that hypnotherapy could help sufferers of IBS was first published in the 1980s.

He thinks it has been widely ignored because many doctors find it hard to believe that it does work, or to comprehend how it could work.

It is pretty clear to me that it has an amazing effect

Dr Roland Valori, editor of Frontline Gastroenterology
He began referring IBS patients for hypnotherapy in the early 1990s and has found it to be highly effective.

"To be frank, I have never looked back," he said.

He audited the first 100 cases he referred for hypnotherapy and found that the symptoms stopped completely in four in ten cases with typical IBS.

He says in a further five in 10 cases patients reported feeling more in control of their symptoms and were therefore much less troubled by them.

"It is pretty clear to me that it has an amazing effect," he said.

"It seems to work particularly well on younger female patients with typical symptoms, and those who have only had IBS for a relatively short time."

Powerful effect

He believes that it could work partly by helping to relax patients.

"Of the relaxation therapies available, hypnotherapy is the most powerful," he said.

He also says that IBS patients often face difficult situations in their lives, and hypnotherapy can help them respond to these stresses in a less harmful way.

NHS guidelines allow doctors to refer IBS patients for hypnotherapy or other psychological therapies if medication is unsuccessful and the problem persists.

Dr Valori thinks that if hypnotherapy were used more widely it could possibly save the NHS money while improving patient care.

Dr Charlie Murray, Secretary of the British Gastroenterology Society, said: "There is no doubt that hypnotherapy is helpful for some patients, but it depends on the skill and experience of those practising it.

"But the degree to which it is effective is not well defined.

"I would support using it as one therapy, but it is no panacea."




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The Great Escape: a spring break without travel




Technically speaking March is spring but in most other ways it still feels decidedly wintry and, for many people, their main summer holiday is a long way off.

But don't panic because the secret is to recreate the escape-it-all experience without leaving the country. New treatments on offer in London include the Two-Hour Holiday, the brainchild of wellbeing expert Patrick Lucocq. It is a mix of visualisation techniques and hypnotherapy, which provide the health benefits of time off abroad without the stress of airport travel. Here, we preview what is on offer to recharge your mind and body.

The Two-Hour Holiday
What is it? A mixture of meditation, relaxation and hypnotherapy
What is involved? It's a bone-chilling evening and I'm sitting in a London basement sniffing lemons surrounded by strangers. There's a rug on the floor spread with travel guides and souvenir pebbles. Guitar music plays in the background. A key part of this therapy is to stimulate the senses through touch and smell. Hence the lemons. It also includes storytelling by sharing your memories of a perfect holiday experience. Most of my group just want more space to think and a good night's sleep. And lots of sunshine.
Next, Patrick asks us to select an object we like from the rug. I pick out a pebble with a lizard motif and am transported back to an Australian trip. As I talk, the tension in my shoulders lifts. Then it's meditation time. The lights are switched off, candles lit and we all lie down on cushions with our eyes shut. Wave sounds play in the background as Patrick asks us to imagine ourselves in a tranquil place and focus on our breathing. It's clear from the noises that some people have already fallen asleep.
Holiday factor? It's hard to explain how two hours in a basement chatting and meditating can recreate the holiday experience. But it does. I leave uplifted and inspired.
Contact: Venues include Neal's Yard in Covent Garden and Regent's Park. (07789713876, www.calmhorizon.co.uk)
Cost: £10 a session.
Sophie Goodchild

The Two Hour Holiday is an event run through Happening Weekends www.happening-weekends.co.uk.

More soon

Best wishes

Patrick

Sleep and Teeth

I have been working with clients who share very similar symptoms, interupted sleep and teeth grinding. So which came first, the interruption or the grinding? Whilst anecdotal, I have found that patients claim that they became aware of their grinding when it started effecting their sleep. Unconscious habits becoming conscious is your body's way of saying 'get this sorted'. It is not the teeth grinding pur se, but the underlying stress and beliefs attached. As many of us know, being stressed can have serious consequences.