How to Prevent Breast Cancer: 20 Risk Factors
Learn these breast cancer risk factors so you can learn how to prevent breast cancer.
- Start Preventing Breast Cancer Early (for Your Daughter's Sake)
- Cook With Stainless Steel
- Use Natural Sunscreens
- Check Your Old Foam Furniture
- Minimize Car Exhaust
- Eat Soy (But Not Too Much)
- Avoid CT Scans and X-Rays
- Check Older Toys
- Avoid Synthetic Hormone Replacement Therapy
- Recycle Batteries
- Eat Clean Fish
- Be Wary of Dry Cleaning Chemicals
- Use Natural Cosmetics
- Avoid Bleach and Chlorine
- Use Natural Pesticides
- Avoid Weed Killers
- Use Nontoxic Cleaning Supplies
- Avoid Canned Food
- Choose Truly "Microwave-Safe" Containers
- Drink Safe Water
- Choose BPA-Free Baby and Water Bottles
Avoid Bleach and Chlorine
Bleached products, including some tampons and household disinfectant bleaches, may be harmful.
By Janet Gray
Reducing your use of chlorine-bleached products will decrease your exposures to both chlorines, and associated chemicals that have been implicated in an increased risk for breast cancer and other diseases. These chemicals are also bad for the environment, more generally, so you’ll be making a change that is good for you and your family, as well as for the plants and animals in your community.
The most obvious change is to use non-chlorine alternatives to bleach for household cleaning and laundry. Also avoid chlorine bleached paper products: do your coffee filters really need to start out white? More personally, if you use tampons, chose ones that are not bleached with chlorine. Seventh Generation is one source of organic, chlorine-free tampons.
See how pool chemicals can be harmful and examples of natural pools.
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