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A healthy diet reduces the likelihood of lung cancer, especially those most at risk for this disease due to snuff. And in nine out of ten cases, the lungs are related to the carcinogens present in smoke snuff.
If you smoke the first thing is to stop smoking. While it is true that nicotine speeds up the metabolic rate, there are different ways of reviving the burning of calories in order to keep on weight.

Among them, make three meals and a small snack mid-morning and mid afternoon and exercise. If you’re gaining weight because you have a ravenous appetite or because it costs you go to the bathroom as regularly as before, take bladderwrack seaweed capsules before main meals. Avoid this last tip if you are hyperthyroid or are very nervous.
You can also take relaxing herbal teas such as lime, orange flower, valerian, to kill the need to take a cigarette to his mouth, chewed licorice root or eat carrot sticks. If withdrawal is makes you uphill, used to extract fluid from oats. It is advised to take 25-30 drops diluted in water and repeat three times a day.
Both excessive and insufficient vitamin A, say the specialists, they favor the development of lung cancer. This imbalance can occur in people who eat a diet low in vegetables and dairy. The recommendation is to eat five servings of vegetables and 2-3 servings of dairy a day.
On the other hand have vitamin B6 tanks filled to the brim down to just over half the risk of lung cancer. This rich breakfast with whole grains and a tablespoon of wheat germ, food richer in vitamin B6. You can also add this add milk and eating a banana a day.

Until recently, lung cancer is a disease that affects almost only men but it is expected that in the not too distant future, the numbers begin to grow in women.

The late entry into the habit of smoking in Spanish women has meant that until now, female mortality rates in this type of cancer were virtually nonexistent in our country. Now warns ICAPEM (Research on Lung Cancer in Women) this situation will soon change.

The fact that more and more women smokers and snuff the high prevalence in Spanish adolescents are expected to soon reach levels similar to those of other countries, for example, the U.S., where deaths from lung cancer exceed those caused by breast cancer or ovarian cancer.

Keep in mind also that women are more susceptible to the damaging action of snuff: your risk of contracting the disease is higher than in men even if they have smoked for less time. Therefore, the average age for women is 40-50 years, when in men over 60.