All factors that can promote oxidation and chronic inflammation should be avoided or reduced. The following several points should be paid special attention to:
Smoking cessation: Smoking can accelerate highly toxic and mutagenic free radical formation and promote inflammatory cell activity which can stimulate the growth of existing cancer. Equally passive smoking is also harmful(Figure 34). Italian and French scholars have analyzed two hundred and fifty-four medical papers from the year of 1961 to 2003 finding that the following cancers have a successively close relationship with smoking: lung cancer, laryngeal cancer and pharynx cancer. The risk for people who are smoking is greater than for former smokers. Other smoking-related cancers include nasal cancer, paranasal sinus cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, stomach cancer, liver cancer, pancreatic cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, cervical cancer, oesophageal cancer and myelogenous leukaemia.
Avoid alcohol: High alcohol consumption, especially drinking liquor can increase oxidative stress and promote antioxidants converting into pro-oxidants, increase free radicals and regulate enzymatic activity of inflammatory responses, thus contributing to the level of inflammation in the body. Except for red wine, this is a strong anti-oxidant.
Avoid Obesity: Obesity increases the risk of cancer. Adipose tissue inside the body is the major source of interleukin-6, and interleukin-6 is the cytokine that promotes chronic inflammation. The level of inflammatory factors in the blood of overweight people increases, insulin and insulin-like growth factor levels of obese people also increase. These two substances can promote the growth of cancer cells.
Avoid Sleeping Deprivation: People who sleep for less than six hours a day have increased blood interleukin-6 and tumor necrosis factor. Both are factors that promote inflammation. Less than four-hour sleeping per night for ten consecutive days or more can increase C-reactive protein.
Reducing pollution exposure: Pollution can exacerbate inflammation. Its mechanisms include oxidative stress, damaging liver detoxification function, triggering allergic reactions, as well as promoting induced inflammatory cytokines formation such as tumor necrosis factor. Exposure to diesel fuel, ozone, mercury and other fumes from coal burning can promote chronic inflammation. We live in a world full of chemicals, air, water and soil are all polluted by chemicals. It is impossible to completely avoid these chemicals, but we can minimize the impact of pollution on our own, for example, in daily life we should avoid household cleaning chemicals and house decoration pollution.
Avoid exposure to radiation: radiation and sunlight can induce free radical generation.
Appropriate exercises: Strong exercise is undesirable because excessive muscle stretching can release inflammatory cytokines, promote inflammation and promote free radical generation. Ideal exercise is to do moderate physical exercise every day or every other day, which will not make you feel tired the next morning. Exercises should be gradual, regular and persistent.