As a part of B4BC Survivorship Week we wanted to introduce you to our friend, Kendra Starr, who is an accomplished doctor in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Kendra has accompanied our survivor wellness retreats these last few years to offer treatments and holistic advice to the breast cancer survivors who have attended these wellness weekends.
Our friends Kaitlin Olson & Rob McElhenney from the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia did a pretty awesome video on their version of a breast self-exam (BSE) with a snow lady and boob snow! You’re going to need to check this out. Download the free B4BC app with a BSE reminder in the app store: http://bit.ly/1cSm2P1 (Source: http://www.youtube.com/)
We could eat almond butter all day long—in a smoothie, on a banana or mostly with a spoon. Luckily it has a m a z i n g health benefits, including reducing aromatase activity within the breast, thereby reducing estrogen production and lowering your risk of breast cancer. It’s also full of fiber, protein and antioxidants to stabilize blood sugar, promote heart health and keep you feeling full!
For those of you new to or curious about yoga, there’s no better time to learn about its important health benefits. While yoga studios and festivals seem to be all the rage, this centuries old practice is hardly a trend. Here at B4BC, some of us have been practicing for many years while others are just discovering it for the first time through our recent ReTreat Yourself wellness experience and B4BC Yoga Heals sessions.
This past Saturday was World Water Day, so we turned to our friends at Surfrider to get some great water saving tips! Did you know that 780 million (1 in 9) people lack access to clean water, and 3.4 million people die each year due to water related illness? Check out our blog for tips from Surfrider to help conserve numbers and change those statistics, and remember Healthy Earth = Healthy You!!
Article and photos courtesy of www.safecosmetics.org Our friends at Campaign for Safe Cosmetics put together a handy guide to what Triclosan is and why you should avoid this hormone disruptor! Triclosan is unregulated, linked to breast cancer, and completely unnecessary in your daily cosmetics. Read your labels and get it out of your life! Article from Campaign…
It’s the middle of the month, so we are here to remind you to do your monthly BSE (Breast Self-Exam)! Not sure how, or never remember to do yours? Download B4BC’s FREE app for iPhone and iPad in the app store and you can set a specific push notification to yourself as a monthly reminder, as well as instructions and tips on how to do it, and info about B4BC’s team riders, events, and more.
Did you know the average woman wears 515 chemicals a day? 5-1-5. What?! Of the 82,000 ingredients found in beauty products, one in eight is an industrial chemical. Our skin absorbs 60 percent of any topical product we use, which often contain chemicals linked to cancer or hormone disruption.
Advertisers spent an astonishing $144 billion in 2011 to entice shoppers to buy more and more stuff, and there is shockingly little regulation on how they are able to label their products, and what toxic chemicals go in them.
Every cigarette you don’t smoke is doing you good. Smoking harms nearly every organ of the body, not only reducing the health of smokers in general, but also causing and contributing to several types of cancers and respiratory and heart disease. It affects the health of others and can limit a woman’s options for treatment…
What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier: Exercise has been touted to be a cure for nearly everything in life, from depression, to memory loss, Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s and more. At the same time, similar to the topic of sleep, I found myself having very little specific and scientific knowledge about what…