In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month we’ve teamed up with Boarding For Breast Cancer (B4BC) to give you 7 easy tips on breast cancer prevention.
Early Detection + Active Lifestyle = Best Prevention
Wipe out Breast Cancer:
-Live Green: Be Eco-friendly. Happy Earth, happy you!
-Check Yourself: Perform monthly breast self-exams and schedule annual exams with a doctor.
-Be Active: Surfing, skating, running, yoga… do what you love!
-Eat Good Stuff: Grub on fruits and veggies with lots of fiber and antioxidants.
-Don’t Smoke: And quit if you do.
-Limit Alcohol Intake: Put down that drink, save money, and be healthy!
-Love Yourself: Keep your whole world in perspective and maintain balance in every area of your life!
Check out more useful tips from Boarding For Breast Cancer at B4BC.org
FREE GIVEAWAY: We have a huge pile of O’Neill Girls stickers and B4BC shower cards that teach you how to “Check Yourself”. To be entered to win some just leave a comment here in our blog answering the following question. 20 winners will be selected at random and notified via email on Friday October 19th 2012.
-What is your favorite way to stay active?
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Surfing I love getting my wetsuit on even in winter and getting you out in that surf!
My favorite way to stay active is skateboarding!! If its just cruising around town or hitting up the skate park! Keeps me in shape and i meet a lot of cool people! =]
Q: What is your favorite way to stay active?
A: I love to get out on the water as much as possible to stand up paddle board. There’s nothing better than catching some waves on my SUP after a long day at the office, practicing sprint intervals/buoy turns when there aren’t waves, or attempting some on the water yoga on my board. : )
Paddleboarding
Surfing with my friends! Not only is running down to the sea and surfing the good exercise and healthy, but laughing,having an amazing surf with your friends and the freedom is just as healthy for both your body and mind!
Going to gym every other day during the winter time as I want to be fit and healthy for the watersport season! working out my core, legs, knees, arms and back and be ready for surfing and wakeboarding in the summer!!! but doing machines are boring so i join classes like – pilates, aqua, boxing, abs class, they are so much fun to work out with the others! stay fit and healthy ladies!
My favorite way to stay active is of course gurfing! I love surfing! A long surf session makes me feel great, healthy, and full of energy! There is nothing better than walking my dog to the beach to go surfing. From stretching before going out and giggling with friends trying to attempt massive airs. The beach is one of my favorite places to get my activities done. I love dancing with my iPod on the beach before and after a good session. Love the feeling of the sand between my toes on a morning jog. The best part about a beach is that it is free and so is the ocean! They are great places to sweat it all out , and enjoy the simple things. First in Last out! Keep smiling everyone and have fun out there! \”’/ <3
My favorite ways to stay active are swimming, wakeboarding, paddle boarding,
dancing, volleyball, yoga and of course surfing. Making time during your day to
be healthy & exercise is necissary to your happiness and well being. I am always
in a fantastic mood and feel great about myself after I have achieved my goal. Hard
work will always pay off! Stay active and healthy ladies!
I stay active by surfing, playing basketetball, swimming, yoga, and dancing.
Love bringing my pugs to the beach forces free run about, paddle & surf ; )
Surfing. I love surfing with my family every day that is possible!
Kitesurfing, to be out there in the ocean and challenging the waves with your board. Overcome your fears and learn new tricks and then the next morning you can’t come up because the pain in your belly is too heavy. I love that feeling, it gives me power to learn more and more and to push myself out there!
I eat healthy, run, do track. Snoawboard, swim, surf! I just try to stay as active as I can
STAY ACTIVE
i love walking on my local beach, wakes me up and makes me feel great
<3 the ocean x
I love skating, running, snowboarding, bike riding, hiking, hitting the gym and whatever I can to stay healthy! Working out makes me feel great and gives me great vibes.
Q -What is your favorite way to stay active?
A – walking on the beach every evening with my mother (who is a breast cancer survivor)
Q. What is your favourite way to stay active?
I have two equal favourite ways to stay active, these are;
1. Surfing – living in Wales you don’t get much surf, but in my spare time I nag my boyfriend to give me a lift to the local beach so I can have a little play in the water! Keeps me excited and going for a good few hours.
2. Snowboarding – I only go once a year, but it’s full of it! non-stop down a mountain and then straight back up on the lifts! killer work out on your legs!
Great cause guys! keep the work up!x
I stay active by surfing, walking my dog, go surfing and skating with my dog
If there is one thing i hate, it’s sitting still.
I love playing soccer, SUP, running, hiking and doing crossfit when i can <3
I love taking my kids to the beach winter and summer,its the best place to relax and watch the kids play,clears your mind1
Love to go surfing with my boyfriend and some of my best friends, such a fun atmosphere to be out there with everyone and connect with the ocean
and to break out the longboard and go cruisin down the street or bike up the causeway to watch the sunset! 
Snowboarding, and skiing. The adrenaline rush is amazing, its not like your working out but having a great day on the mountain. You never want to leave.
my favorite way to stay active is surfing and singing! especially when i can combine those two, so if i score a wave i just sing my lungs out,believe me,it’s the best way to boost your spirit!! ps if you follow my advice, don’t pay attention to the weird looks you get
I love doing Zumba! It is so much fun and high energy. also Swimming is great too!
Working out on the beach is my ultimate fav. But besides that… Anything outdoors.
My way to be active is practising my favorites sports (surfing and skating) and many other activities in order to improve surfing or skating. If you practice a sport you love and even better, if you practice it with friends, it won’t seem an obligation and you will be practising a lot and will make you happy.
kitesurfing <3
just moved from sunny so cal all the way to chilly western PA for college! i love doing pilates, going running with friends (enjoying the changing leaves), swimming, and zumba classes. i also also exercise my index finger scrolling through o’neill girls blog and dreaming of warmers days..:)
Going to the gym with friends =)
My favourite way to be active are snowboarding (on winter of course) and longboarding with my dog all year on my city.
I have 3 ways to stay active, first I love to skateboard, it exercise your legs in a great way, plus it’s a good way to distract from everyday stress and it’s just cool to do it. Second, I love love to swim, that’s a good way to excersice every muscle in your body, it helps me stay fit and healthy, plus is good for the <3. And third I do cardio and some aerobics excercise, that helps me stay in a good shape and to be healthy!
I love getting waves with my 3 sons – whether it’s surfing, bodysurfing, or bodyboarding – or a combination of all, we have lots of fun sharing waves and cheering each other on.
Walking which often equates to running with my hyperactive border collie!
I love running, swimming, cycling, dancing and much more.. but most of all KITESURFING <3
Yoga and surfing ! Which I personally think is such a great combination- you go into yourself and become one with Nature. Great feeling ! Since I sadly cant say I live close to a beach- I need to use every days off to go surfing…yip, even Europe has some really nice spots
Someday I know I’ll say “I go surfing at our LOCAL BEACH ”
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Cancer is less a disease than a condition existing in the whole human body. Cancer would be almost unheard of if no devitalized food or meats were eaten since cancer cannot exist where there is a pure bloodstream. Avoid meat in all forms including dairy. Meat is a dead matter, low in minerals, and produces uric acid in excess which is a waste product. The incidence of cancer is in direct proportion to the amount of meat and meat products in the diet. Regular meat eaters (especially red meat) have a higher probability of getting cancers, such as colon cancer and prostate cancer. Digestion of meat uses trypsin and chymotrypsin, which are two critical enzymes in the human body to allow the immune system to kill cancer cells. Vegetable proteins do not use up those enzymes. Cancer patient should not eat anything that is not building the immunity system or killing cancer cells. Meat does not contribute to curing the cancer, so meat is should be avoided by cancer patients. There are plenty of foods that help cure cancer, so there is no need to eat meat. Pancreatin enzymes can be destroyed by contact with acids. Diet comprised mostly of processed refined foods and meats may result in lower pH that depletes these enzymes in the human body. Cancer cells metabolize foods very inefficiently and produce acidic wastes. This extra acidity can further lower the pH levels in an already acidic environment for pancreatin enzymes. The lower pH level also enables the cancer to spread by using acid dissolved normal cells as its food source. This strongly acidic lower pH environment, especially local to the cancer is the primary reason that cancer does not normally heal on its own. The colon should be relatively clear during a cancer treatment so that the body can absorb as many nutrients as possible. All foods like meat which ferment in the bowel should be avoided to prevent the accumulation of fecal matter in the colon. The hormones in meat like artificial sex hormone widely used in cattle – Diethylstilbestrol cause cancer of the uterus, breast and other reproductive organs. Dangerous residues of stilbestrol are in 85% of all the meat sold in North America. This is the main reason why fifteen countries around the world now refuse to import meat produced in the US; and twenty one countries have a total ban on the use of stilbestrol in food production or processing. When chemical preservatives and color enhancers are ingested, they cause the body to produce nitrosamines which cause cancer of the liver, stomach, brain, bladder, kidneys and several other organs. Nitrates and nitrites are heavily added to meat during processing. Runoff of nitrates and nitrites from fields sprayed with chemical fertilizers get into drinking water and cause cancer. can lead to cancer. If the digestive system is weak, digestion of meat could produce toxins in blood.
Though devitalized, processed, and sugared food can also cause cancer even in vegetarians. People, communities and groups who consume less meat have less cancer. Seventh-day Adventists, who eat little or no meat, suffer far less from cancer than the average meat-eating American. High protein diet of Americans is linked to the high incidence of cancer in the US. Anyone who does not eat meat, eats only good food, and does all he can to protect his liver, may never get cancer.
The second solution is to introduce the appropriate calciums into the body since the body uses calcium as the chief alkalinizer of all body fluids including the intra-cellular fluids. Cancers and tumors can only exist in a predominantly lower pH (acidic) environment caused by a diet rich in dairy foods, meats, grain products, sweets and strong condiments such as black pepper. This is always accompanied by an acute lack of living fruits and vegetables. High acidity destroys bones, because the body has to use alkalizing minerals from bones to keep the blood pH from dropping into the acid range.
Lactobacillus acidophilus is a friendly organism which helps the body fight disease and restores health. Acidophilus kills the harmful bacteria strain of E. coli in the intestinal tract. Acidophilus breaks milk sugar down into lactic acid. Bacteria which produce putrefaction and gas in the intestines cannot live in lactic acid. Acidophilus also has the unique ability to help the body synthesize, or manufacture all of the ‘B’ vitamins in the system. This makes it especially valuable since there is literally a host of agents which destroy B vitamins. A few are antibiotics, birth control pills, eating sugar and refined foods and drinking coffee. A diet high in red meat will destroy the beneficial bacteria, due to the concentration of antibiotics and steroids given to the animals before they are slaughtered.
Cancer is fundamentally involved with mal-utilization of protein. Oncologists generally agree that the actual cause of death in cancer patients is cachexia, a condition of severe weight loss and wasting associated with protein mal-absorption. In fact cancer cells are able to grow by making the amino acids of protein available for their growth at the expense of the body as a whole. Meat, especially red meat, being the most readily assimilable protein, becomes a banquet for cancer cells. Emphasizing the use of plant sources of vegetable protein such as legumes and beans that contain cancer-fighting compounds should be a prominent part of an anti-cancer diet.
The most damaging evidence that meat is a major cause of cancer are studies of people who went into spontaneous remission solely because of a change in their diet. These people almost universally went from a cooked food, meat-centered diet and gave up their meat, their dairy products and their refined sugar and switched to a raw food vegetarian diet, and by simply changing diets their bodies were able to cure their cancer.
U.S.Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) own research shows that the cancer causing arsenic added to the chicken feed ends up in the chicken meat where it is consumed by humans. California added to its list of cancer-causing chemicals an additive commonly used in processed beverages like Coca Cola, Pepsi etc – 4-methylimidazole (4-MI) – a byproduct formed during the production of caramel color.
Sodium Nitrate (aka Sodium Nitrite) – a preservative, coloring, and flavoring commonly added to bacon, ham, hot dogs, luncheon meats, smoked fish, and corned beef – causes various types of cancer.
Butylated hydroxyanisole (BHA) and butylated hydrozyttoluene (BHT) are used to preserve common household foods including cereals, chewing gum, potato chips, vegetable oils and canned foods – form cancer-causing reactive compounds in human body.
Propyl Gallate – preservative, often used in conjunction with BHA and BHT in meat products, chicken soup base, and chewing gum causes cancer
Acesulfame-K is a new artificial sweetener used in baked goods, chewing gum, and gelatin desserts causes cancer
Food Colorings like Blue 1, 2 is used in beverages, candy, baked goods; Red 3 used to dye cherries, fruit cocktail, candy, and baked goods; Green 3 used in candy and beverages; Yellow 6 is added to beverages, sausage, gelatin, baked goods, and candy; cause various type of cancer.
Potassium Bromate used as an additive to increase volume in some white flour, breads, and rolls causes cancer.
Most beans contain protease inhibitors that inhibit the growth of cancer cells. Beans which are high in resistant starch can protect against colorectal cancer. Resistant starch helps the body resist colorectal cancer through mechanisms including killing pre-cancerous cells and reducing inflammation that can otherwise promote cancer.
Jogging, bike riding, roller skating and paddling!!