November is officially Lung Cancer Awareness Month. This all started as Lung Cancer Awareness Day way back in 1995. As the lung cancer community and the lung cancer movement grew, the awareness activities increased and grew into Lung Cancer Awareness Month.

During the month, many people throughout the country and the world come together for the lung cancer community. Events are held. Articles are written. Facebook statuses are updated. Videos are created and spread online. Proclamations are issued.

It is important to remember, that these are all important things that can happen throughout the entire year, not just in November.

November Personal Best:

1. Water Works
2. How Diabetes Affects Heart Health
3. 5 Ways to Stop Winter Weight Gain
4. On Your Mind: Anxiety
5. Keeping Kids Tobacco Free
6. Monday, Monday
7. Get the Most From Your Break
8. Returning to Work
9. Inheriting a Home with a Mortgage
10. Protect Yourself from Fraud
11. Smart Money Choices for the Holidays
12. 7 Habits of Safe Workers
13. Avalanches: What You Need to Know
14. Safety Corner: NO Texting
15. Type 2 Diabetes: Diet Does Matter

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The Trick to Treats!
Forget the haunted house; the spookiest Halloween specter is the candy. We show you how to deal. Talk about scary: Halloween is a hard time to stay on plan. What can you do when those 5-pound bags of candy go on sale at the grocery store, or when your kids have laid out their loot on the living room floor? We’ve surveyed some people who have had success with Weight Watchers, and found out how they tackle the scariest Halloween candy scenarios.

Resist the sales
“My biggest Halloween challenge is not falling for the coupon in the paper,” says Linda. “A 5-pound bag of Snickers on sale is still a 5-pound bag of Snickers.”

Buy late
“The closer to Halloween you buy the candy,the better,” says Maggie. “In fact,” she says, “never, ever open the bag before the first trick-or-treater comes.” That way, you’ll have less total temptation time to cope with.

Buy candy you don’t like
Dina says she heads straight for Mounds and Almond Joy when she has to pick up the Halloween candy. “Coconut is the one thing Idon’t like,” she says.

Make up a game plan
If you decide to go for the mini Reese’s that the kids will love you for, says Maggie, “Start giving out more as the night wears on, so there’s less left over.” If there are still remainders, get them out of the house. Give the candy away to a food charity, collect it all and offer it to the neighbors, or bring it to work (and drop it off in a different department) .

Go out on a full stomach
If you have to walk your kids around to trick-or-treat, make lunch your big meal of the day, so you’re not walking around hungry with bags full of candy. Carry a thermos of something hot to sip on, or, as Manhattan meetings Leader Liz Josefsberg says, chew mint gum throughout the night. It’ll help kill your urge to put candy in your mouth.

Come up with a candy strategy
When the candy’s at home,work with your kids to decide what to do with it. Have them pick their 10 favorite pieces: If they’re young, encourage them to leave the rest out for ‘The Great Pumpkin.” And if they’re too big to believe,encourage them to save the rest for lunches and parties.

Freeze!
Liz suggests putting left-over favorite candy in the freezer. If you get weak and find yourself digging into them,they will be rock solid and it will take time to get through even one.

Ditch the sense of occasion
Remind yourself that you can buy yourself candy any time of the year.There’s no need to load up on fun­ size bars on October 31 when you can enjoy them whenever your heart desires.

Keep things in perspective
Eating a little bit of candy on Halloween doesn’t make a person overweight -it’s constant overeating that can pile on the pounds.So don’t assume you can’t enjoy even a single treat. especially since deprivation is a dieting tactic that often backfires.

Slimming treats
Halloween means candy wherever you look, and it can be hard denying yourself outright. For those who like to have a candy bowl nearby, we searched the shelves for candy that was lower in POINTS® value, but still gave a bang for the buck. Miniatures are a great deal in terms of portion control, while chewy candies turn out to be a big mouthful bargain and hard candies and lollipops score high for long-lasting satisfaction.

From breastcancer.org. No food or diet can prevent you from getting breast cancer. But some foods can make your body the healthiest it can be, boost your immune system, and help keep your risk for breast cancer as low as possible. And no food or diet can cure cancer, though some of them may help control treatment side effects or help your body get well after treatment. Some food choices may help cancer treatment work more effectively or may help keep you healthy. Others can be dangerous and can interfere with treatment and recovery.

Healthy weight reduces risk of first-time breast cancer and recurrence.

Maintaining a healthy weight may help reduce the risk of breast cancer coming back. Studies have shown that women who gained weight after their breast cancer diagnosis had an increased risk of recurrence.

Studies on maintaining a healthy weight and lowering the risk of a first-time breast cancer suggest that overweight women have an increased risk of breast cancer after menopause compared to women at a healthy weight.

If you’re not sure what your healthy weight should be, use some of the tips and tools available on the Assess Your Weight page. A healthy eating plan should include some physical activity. Aim for 3 to 4 hours of walking per week to start. If you’re having treatment right now, you may need to start slowly and work up to this.

Low-fat diet may reduce risk of recurrence and first-time breast cancer.

Sticking to a low-fat diet may help reduce the risk of breast cancer coming back. One study in which women got only about 25% of their daily calories from fat found a lower risk of recurrence, mostly in women who’d been diagnosed with estrogen-receptor-negative breast cancer. It will take more than this one study to know who is most likely to get the biggest benefit from specific dietary changes. But no matter what kind of cancer you’ve had, you might get significant benefit from lowering the amount of fat in your diet. Plus, other healthy choices are more likely to come with a low-fat diet, such as eating more fruits and vegetables and losing weight. All these changes together may help lower your risk of recurrence.

The large Women’s Health Initiative Trial compared the breast cancer risk of postmenopausal women who ate a low-fat diet to those who continued to eat their regular diet. The researchers didn’t find any significant differences in breast cancer risk between the two groups. But the study did suggest that a low-fat diet may reduce the risk of first-time breast cancer for women whose diets are very high in fat to begin with. More research is needed to determine if this relationship becomes stronger over time. And reducing fat and increasing fruits, vegetables, and whole grains in your diet will ensure your body is getting enough nutrients and contribute to your overall health. Also, a low-fat diet will probably help you lose weight, if you are trying to do that.

Follow this link for more information, www.breastcancer.org/tips/nutrition/reduce_risk/reduce_risk.