QCS officials educating children about health food and exercise.
Qatar Cancer Society (QCS), participated in Doha International Food Festival 2017 from March 29 to April 4, at Sheraton Hotel Park. Through a booth at the festival, QCS aimed to raise public awareness of healthy food and exercises to prevent diseases especially cancer, in conjunction with March, the month of awareness of colorectal cancer.
Dr Hadi Abu Rasheed, Supervisor of Health Education QCS stressed the importance of participating in such activities, which aim to promote a healthy lifestyle through exercise and healthy food to prevent diseases and one can reduce risk of developing colorectal cancer by adapting healthy lifestyle: maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active at least 30 minutes per day, eating healthy diet, not smoking, and not consuming alcohol.
‘Colorectal cancer is the third most commonly diagnosed cancer and third leading cause of cancer death in both men and women. About 72 percent of cases arise in the colon and about 28 percent in the rectum, pointing out that anyone can get colorectal cancer. The lifetime risk of being diagnosed with cancer of colon or rectum is about 5 percent for both men and women.
See your doctor if you have any of these warning signs: bleeding from rectum, blood in stool or in the toilet after having a bowel movement, dark- or black-coloured stools, change in shape of stool, cramping pain in lower stomach, feeling of discomfort or an urge to have a bowel movement when there is no need, new onset of constipation or diarrhea that lasts for more than a few days, unintentional weight loss, he added.
