April is Bowel Cancer Awareness, hope this helps

Diagram of the Digestive system to try and help to understand more about the bowel.

April is bowel cancer awareness, this is the 4th most common cancer in the UK.

Did you know that Sir Bobby Moore lost his life to bowel cancer 20 years ago. Bobby Moore Fund is launching a new campaign to make Bobby proud.

Here are some helpful tips in which to try and prevent Bowel Cancer:-

STOP SMOKING - Regular, long term smokers will be more prone to bowel cancer than people that don't smoke.  Tobacco contains many toxins that are really bad for our health, and which can lead to so many cancers.

KEEP YOUR WEIGHT IN CHECK - Being overweight will increase the risk of cancer, so when stopping smoking try and keep your weight in check.

CUT DOWN ON THE ALCOHOL - Heavy drinking, or binge drinking is known now to increase the risk of Bowel cancer, so try to cut it down or out (if possible)

EXERCISE REGULARLY - By exercising 30 minutes everyday will help burn the calories, which will help weight maintenance. It is also very important as it will also help move food through the digestive system more quickly.

EAT HEALTHILY - Make sure that you eat plenty of dietary fibre, have lots of vegetables, seeds, whole grains, fruit and drink plenty of water...
There is a strong evidence of a  link with bowel cancer from eating red meat  and processed meat, so try and avoid it.
Poultry, Fish and Red meat substitute Quorn, Meat free
There is a also healthy Vitamins and Mineral supplements which can also help towards reducing the risk of bowel cancer...Please check that the supplements do not contain chemicals


Cancer cells are abnormal cells that have developed as a result of errors in the way normal cells in the body have reproduced, so that they become aggressive and start to spread to the surrounding tissues and even to other parts of the body.  Bowel cancer,, also known ascolorectal cancer or colon cancer,  is any cancer that affects the colon (large bowel) and rectum (back passage).It usually grows very slowly over a period of up to 10 years, before it starts to spread and affect other parts of the body

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