I'm always interested in ways to lower my risk of cancer, or of recurrence. When I finished reading "Anticancer" by David Servan-Schreiber, I was ready for some change. So we've been eating healthier, I've started going back to the gym, and looking for more things we can do to improve our health. Some of these things are simple and some require deep change. But if you're ready for changes now, here are a dozen ways to detoxify your personal environment - inside and out. Let me know what you think, by leaving a comment, or be sending in your own ideas.

At my house, I'm the main cook. And we practice what I preach. Not that I preach all that much, but I do it with a cast-iron skillet in my hand, so I get my way pretty often! Just kidding. Tonight we had tilapia with green molé sauce, curried lentils, whole grain cous-cous, and naan flatbread. Fish is better for you than meat, it has no saturated fats, but lots of protein. I also learned recently about the omega 3/6 ratio and how that benefits our health, and I'll fill you in on that later.

• Fish and Seafood - Dive In To Healthy Eating

Broccoli Photo © Microsoft

Get out your vegetable steamers and your favorite sauce - broccoli now has the honor of being scientifically proven to prevent breast cancer! Broccoli and broccoli sprouts, two cruciferous vegetables, contain isothiocyanates, which inhibit cell proliferation. "Breast cancer, the second leading cause of cancer death in women, can be protected against by eating cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and near relatives of cabbage such as broccoli and cauliflower," said study co-author Olga Azarenko, a graduate student at UCSB. Scientists in the UC Santa Barbara Departments of Biochemistry, Pharmacology, and Biology have published a research paper on their study of anticancer compounds in cruciferous vegetables, showing how these everyday vegetables can prevent and fight breast cancer in ways similar to Taxol and Vincristine - two chemotherapy drugs used to stop tumor cell division. I've always liked broccoli, and curried cauliflower, but now I have more reason to be sure they appear on my plate often!

Mike Partain Photo © The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten

Mike Partain wants to hear from you, if you lived at Camp LeJeuene any time from 1957 until 1987. Although Mike does not drink, smoke, or carry the BRCA genes, he was diagnosed with male breast cancer in April 2007, had a mastectomy and 6 months of chemo. Just having lived at Camp LeJeune from 1967-1968 put him at risk, because the water on base was contaminated with the chemicals TCE (trichloroethylene) and PCE (perchloroethylene). Male breast cancer is not the only possible result of exposure to these chemicals, and many others who lived at Camp LeJeuene during those 30 years were affected in a variety of ways. Mike Partain and others have joined forces to find other people that may have health problems related to toxic water at Camp LeJeuene. "This issue represents an avenue for us as a society to finally identify a link between breast cancer (as well as several other cancers) and a particular substance we make and dispose of in the environment," wrote Mike. At their website, The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten, you can read more about the history of water contamination at the base, and the consequences, as well as network with others who were exposed to these chemicals.

• The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten
• Mike Partain's WCTV Interview
• An invisible epidemic - Contaminated water at Camp LeJuene
• Male Breast Cancer
• Top 10 Breast Cancer Prevention Tips