{"id":1058,"date":"2014-10-26T16:55:39","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T23:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2014-10-26T16:55:39","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T23:55:39","slug":"october-is-breast-cancer-awareness-month-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/october-is-breast-cancer-awareness-month-5\/","title":{"rendered":"October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">We must do more than think <\/span>pink <span style=\"color: #000000;\">this October.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The statistics can be very disheartening, while Black women are less likely to get breast cancer; they\u2019re more likely to die from it. Obesity is the second leading contributing factor after tobacco. Some studies showed that women of 40 don\u2019t even remember when their last mammogram was.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some experts are now recommending women have their first mammogram before 40 and possibly as early as 33 this according to a recent study published in the Journal of American College of Surgeons. To find a center near you please visit Cancer.org.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you haven\u2019t schedule your first or next mammogram please take time to do so.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some small things that will help you stay healthy; walking one to two hours weekly cuts your breast cancer risk by 18 to 20 percent.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Eating smart, research shows that that the greater variety of fruits and vegetables you eat, the more phytonutrients you consume.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Remember to do monthly breast exams, for more information on this please visit ww5.komen.org.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">For more information regarding Breast Cancer please visit www.BCRFCURE.ORG.<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\">Cheers to staying healthy!<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We must do more than think pink this October.\u00a0 The statistics can be very disheartening, while Black women are less likely to get breast cancer; they\u2019re more likely to die from it. Obesity is the second leading contributing factor after tobacco. Some studies showed that women of 40 don\u2019t even remember when their last mammogram [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sistahology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}