When we talk about cancer prevention it really tends to be big data right it tends to be long-term

trends and numbers and that stuff is really important but it's easy to forget that we're

talking about humans and human lives when we get so lost in the

numbers and so I really wanted to try and like put a face to prevention and convey

that this is also about human stories and about preventing

suffering and anyone who has survived cancer. My sister included will tell you if the option was available they would have much rather had prevention than a cure.

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Welcome to the whole view. I'm Stacy Toth of Real Everything

and I'm here each week to dive deeper into how we can find

happiness and health inside and out through self-love body positivity and discovering new

ways to be our best selves. Before we get started a reminder this podcast is for general educational purposes and is not intended to diagnose advise or treat any physical or mental illness we always recommend that you see a licensed health professional accordingly.

Today we are going to be talking about a topic that is

tangential medical in nature, but Christina Barusik is training us to talk about her new book, A New War on Cancer. And when I heard the title of your book, Kristi, and I was like, what is this about?

Are we, is there a new treatment?

And instead, we're going to be talking about the preventative nature and how we can reduce the likelihood from reducing risks around us and the harm that comes from a lot of the things that are in our environment and lifestyle because the majority of cancers today are caused not from genetics but from what is in our environment and the lifestyles that we live.

So I'll start as I know you're quite familiar with these topics and Christina has done an incredible job

researching them so I want to introduce you to her she's an award-winning journalist at

Environmental Health News which is published by Environmental Health Sciences.

And her writing has been published by outlets and I'm sure things that you've read,

including the Harvard Business Review, CNN,

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