PSYC 2301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Melanoma, Colorectal Cancer, Prostate Cancer
22 Apr 2013
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Delay onset of disease and such: exercise, diet, disease screening, sleep, and others Exercise: aerobic exercise (activity that is intense and for a long duration) Exercising regularly needs to be common: inactivity is more common in: If you never went to get screened, that means that potentially by the time you get symptoms, it is too late to intervene. Get diagnosed with cancer when it is too late. Why bother going in if you feel like yourself. 69 000 new cases of skin cancer each year. Malignant melanoma takes almost 900 lives each year. What did you eat today: take a moment to think about what you ate today Healthy diet: recommended minimum of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables. * recommendations can be restrictive, monotonous, expensive, hard to find. Interventions: individual interventions, family interventions, community interventions. Obesity: excessive accumulation of body fat, global epidemic:
