Marianne Faithful Diganosed with Breast Cancer
Sunday, January 28, 2007
British singer and actress Marianne Faithfull has been diagnosed with breast cancer but expects to make a full recovery, her publicist said on Thursday.
Doctors in France who diagnosed the disease said the cancer was in its earliest stages.
The 59-year-old Faithfull, a former girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, has postponed a world tour she was due to start next month.
The singer with the distinctive gravelly voice said in a statement: "I have absolute faith and confidence in my fantastic medical team and of course I will be well again, if not better than ever.
"Next year's tour, I want to assure fans, will be one big celebration," she added.
Her spokesman Rob Partridge said: "The disease has been quickly discovered by doctors in France -- where Marianne stays when not at home in Ireland -- and the prognosis for a return to full health is excellent.
"Indeed, Marianne Faithfull is looking forward to playing the re-scheduled tour in 2007."
Faithfull, the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian Baroness, began her music career in 1964 after being discovered at a Rolling Stones launch party when just 17 years old
Jagger and fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards penned her first hit -- "As Tears Go By."
She married artist John Dunbar in 1965 and had a son, but the marriage was short-lived and she began an affair with Jagger that was one of the most notorious and heavily publicized in Swinging Sixties Britain.
Her drug addiction, frankly chronicled later in her autobiography, brought her career grinding to a halt for several years and she ended up living on the streets of London.
Her reputation was firmly re-established in 1979 with the release of the critically acclaimed album "Broken English."
After another bout of addiction, she recovered and re-invented herself in the Eighties as a jazz and blues singer.
Her career was given a further fillip in the Nineties when she performed the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
She also carved out an acting career in both films and on stage -- from Ophelia in Hamlet to a leather-clad motorcyclist alongside Alain Delon in the French film "Girl On A Motorcycle."
By Paul Majendie souce: http://today.reuters.com
Doctors in France who diagnosed the disease said the cancer was in its earliest stages.
The 59-year-old Faithfull, a former girlfriend of Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger, has postponed a world tour she was due to start next month.
The singer with the distinctive gravelly voice said in a statement: "I have absolute faith and confidence in my fantastic medical team and of course I will be well again, if not better than ever.
"Next year's tour, I want to assure fans, will be one big celebration," she added.
Her spokesman Rob Partridge said: "The disease has been quickly discovered by doctors in France -- where Marianne stays when not at home in Ireland -- and the prognosis for a return to full health is excellent.
"Indeed, Marianne Faithfull is looking forward to playing the re-scheduled tour in 2007."
Faithfull, the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian Baroness, began her music career in 1964 after being discovered at a Rolling Stones launch party when just 17 years old
Jagger and fellow Rolling Stone Keith Richards penned her first hit -- "As Tears Go By."
She married artist John Dunbar in 1965 and had a son, but the marriage was short-lived and she began an affair with Jagger that was one of the most notorious and heavily publicized in Swinging Sixties Britain.
Her drug addiction, frankly chronicled later in her autobiography, brought her career grinding to a halt for several years and she ended up living on the streets of London.
Her reputation was firmly re-established in 1979 with the release of the critically acclaimed album "Broken English."
After another bout of addiction, she recovered and re-invented herself in the Eighties as a jazz and blues singer.
Her career was given a further fillip in the Nineties when she performed the works of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
She also carved out an acting career in both films and on stage -- from Ophelia in Hamlet to a leather-clad motorcyclist alongside Alain Delon in the French film "Girl On A Motorcycle."
By Paul Majendie souce: http://today.reuters.com
8 Ways to Prevent Breast Cancer
Saturday, January 20, 2007
Breast Cancer Prevention
Almost all of you know aoubt this new name of horror "THE CANCER". More than 100 different kinds of cancer have been discovered so far, and perhaps many more to come yet. One of them is Breast Cancer, which mostly affect women. All male breast cancers cases accounts less than 1% of all brest cancer cases diagnosed. More than 2 million women in US is suffering at this very moment. Let us know some ways to prevent this disease.
1. You should be more active. A recent Norwegian study discovered that women who exercised on a regular basis cut their breast cancer risk by 72 percent.
2. You should eat more unrefined seed foods. They all contain phytoestrogens. If you eat foods rich in these elements, you are 4 times less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer. You should consume whole grains, beans, nuts, edible seeds, fruits and vegetables with their seeds.
3. You should eat less vegetable oil and increase the consumption of animal fat and dairy products. Consume yogurt, cheese, milk, butter, and olive oil on a daily basis, and eat meat from time to time.
4. You should eat less tofu and soy beverage. The isoflavone found in soy causes breast cancer cells to grow rapidly. On the other hand, eat more miso and tamari. Studies have found that they are very effective in preventing cancer.
5. You should eat foods rich in antioxidants. At the same time, avoid supplements of vitamins E and C. It was discovered that supplements increase breast cancer risk. Eat five to seven servings of dark green and bright red/orange foods every day.
6. You should sleep in the dark. Recent studies found out that exposure to light at night increases the risk of breast cancer by at least 36 percent.
7. You should drink red clover blossom infusion. Drink a quart of red clover infusion every week.
8. You should eat seaweed as a vegetable. Consume at least a half-cup serving per week. Wakame, kombu, kelp, and alaria are very effective.
If you follow these eight tips you will greatly increase your chances of preventing breast cancer.
