World No-Tobacco Day: Help Your Members Quit For Good
Lung cancer was once an extremely rare disease in humans. So rare that doctors considered it a once-in-a-lifetime event to discover a case among their patients. Now, however, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide, accounting for 1.8 million deaths in 2020 alone. This is a stunning statistic on its own, but […]
World Cancer Day: A Look Into Prevention
Globally, cancer is the second leading cause of death, with estimates declaring that 1 in 6 deaths occurs due to cancer. The widespread disease is not only costing us many lives globally, but it also comes with an expensive price tag for our economy. The global annual economic cost of cancer in 2010 was estimated […]
Self-Control: Managing Habits
As we’re coming to the end of our Wheel of LifeTM weekly blogs, one of the remaining categories to discuss is self-control. The self-control section of our Wheel encompasses alcohol, caffeine and nicotine consumption, so we’ll explore the overall dangers associated with consumption (or overconsumption) of these substances. Nicotine Consumption Nicotine, a highly addictive substance, […]