Author: Camille McClellan

Cancer Prevention: Understanding the Facts About Cancer

Cancer Prevention: Understanding the Facts About Cancer

Cancer has a fearsome reputation. Not without reason either. It is a disease that has not yet fully yielded to the skills and intelligence of medical scientists and doctors.  And, as if the pain from the disease is not enough, the treatment for cancer, too, inflicts heavy suffering on the body.  Cancer is a disease characterized by uncontrolled and abnormal cell division. Cancer spreads in the body and destroys tissues when the cancer cells travel through the bloodstream or the lymphatic system.  The runaway growth of cells is caused by mutations to the DNA in the cells that makes the cells unable to control cell division.  This mutation can either be inherited or acquired. The mortality rate in cancer depends…

Your Chronic Condition Doesn’t Have to Be Your Life Story

Your Chronic Condition Doesn’t Have to Be Your Life Story

You’re Not Alone, Really! Your health challenges are your own. I really get that, as I too have had my own scary health challenges to overcome. Though it was a large mountain to overcome, I eventually got through to the other side.  But I’m not going to tell you that it was easy, or that I have no more health problems. It takes a lot of time, effort, and hard work to resolve chronic conditions! While I have certainly improved my overall health and well-being, I would say that the improvement is at about 98% of optimal.  I’ve worked very hard to get to that place, and, if you’re like me, you’re also striving for that clean bill of health,…

Chronic Disease: Natural Antioxidant Are the Most Powerful Way to Fight Back

Chronic Disease: Natural Antioxidant Are the Most Powerful Way to Fight Back

Natural Antioxidant For years now, man has been dependent on nature for his source of nutrients essential for his health.  Plants are where we get most of our foods and our medicines, relying on them almost entirely for developing our bodies to their full potential and at the same time reducing the causes of degenerative diseases. Recently, scientists have discovered the substance responsible for many of the health benefits we’ve been receiving from plants.  Fruits and vegetables seem to contain chemical substances that act on specific, harmful molecules inside our bodies to stop them from damaging our cells.  Because these substances work on oxygen by-products called free radicals, they have since come to be known as natural antioxidants. A natural…

Mental Health On Depression: The First Step is to Acknowledge it

Depression is an illness and needs to be acknowledged as such. It is not a reason to be ashamed. The reason so many people fail to seek help for their depression is that they are ashamed. Unfortunately, this is one of the feelings associated with depression anyway and makes the illness difficult to acknowledge. 

Simple Ways to Increase Longevity and Fight Aging

Simple Ways to Increase Longevity and Fight Aging

Since the 19th century, common prolonged existence or longevity is greater than before. At one time, the average male expected to live up until the mid-forties, while the average female expected to live until the late forties.  This seems illogical since many of our older generation of people born in the 1900s are still around today. As our system advanced, experts found that people were living beyond the 70 and 80s.  The longevity has changed dramatically providing the people gain. Still, in recent times, men are expected to live over 80, and women are expected to live past 90.  Rarely do you see someone who has lived past 100 years of age. According to experts, a person living past 125…