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Great stomach pain, initial symptom of collon cancer (Photo by Courtesy)

Do you like to eating fried food whose using oil repeatedly (waste cooking oi)? Or you like to consume preserved foods? Or grilled food until it charred? If so, beware, colon cancer lurked you.

Not only that, those who likes to consume food that is heated in high temperatures and could consume any food exposed to pesticides can cause colon cancer. In addition, it is less fiber diet, and trigger the emergence of the disease.

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As it is known as the last line of food digestion, collon has the potential to attacked by cancer from the food we eat. Colon cancer caused by many contacts between the colon and carcinogen substance in the long term.

Carcinogenic substance is a toxic substance derived from the foods we consume. When this substance is in the large intestine, it can trigger the growth of cancer cells on the surface of the intestine by altering the normal cells into cancer cells.

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Even worse, the carcinogens food exist in a preserved food, grilled food, food that was not properly processed, foods fried using waste cooking oils, foods contaminated with pesticides, and so forth.

The best, consume foods that contain lots of fiber. Fiber helps prevent colon cancer and increase the volume of feces by absorbing water. When the volume of feces faster and bigger then the sooner our feces removed from the intestine pushing to defecate.

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If it is so, then the possibility of carcinogenic substances for contact with the large intestine was not so long. It means, toxic substances do not have a chance to live in the intestinal wall.

Symptoms arising in colon cancer is sometimes difficult to identified because the symptoms initially felt like stomach pain as common as diarrhea. Therefore, do not ignore diarrhea or abdominal pain, you should contact a physician if it remains suspicious

Common symptoms of diarrhea following the colon cancer is tired, shortness of breath when working, and dizzy head. Besides that, there are bleeding in the rectum, a temporary sense of satiety, or stomach cramps and pressure in the rectum.

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Other symptoms, the presence of blood in the stool, such as occurs in patients with gastric bleeding, colon polyps, or hemorrhoids. In addition, pale, sick in general, malnutrition, weak, thin, place the fluid in the abdominal cavity, liver enlargement, and widening the channel spleen.

Since the colon cancer is considered as a disease grows so slowly, so people are encouraged to do early detection through blood tests that exist in the stool and colonoscopy. Early detection should be done since the age of 40 years.

Wish to avoiding colon cancer? Let's have early detection!