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24 09, 2012

Cancer Gets Under My Skin, I Can Taste It, I Can Smell it

By |2017-11-10T21:06:00-05:00September 24th, 2012|American Cancer Society, boing boing, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Cancer Schmancer, Center for Environmental Oncology, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Choose you, Coca-Cola, Coke, Colon Cancer, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Couzens, Founder Less Cancer, Frank Couzens lll, Funeral, Less Cancer, MD, Miles O'Brien, ORGANIC, Prevention, Uncategorized, Xeni Jardin|

Less Cancer Founder Bill Couzens, Brother Frank and Sister Anne Couzens   This week I have tried to wash the cancer away. I have showered time and time again, scrubbing my skin hoping the events of last week are all a bad dream never to return. But its not, Cancer has once again

22 09, 2012

Frank Couzens III

By |2017-11-10T21:06:00-05:00September 22nd, 2012|Bill Couzens, Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Chemo, Colon Cancer, Couzens, DAC, Detroit, Detroit Athletic Club, Founder Less Cancer, Frank Couzens Jr, Frank Couzens lll, Funeral, Jackson Dawson, Joan Couzens, Mackinac Race, Memorial Service, MIddleburg, Middleburg Virginia, ORGANIC, Radiation, Uncategorized|

Grosse Pointe Farms and Harbor Springs, Michigan resident Frank Couzens III, 57, passed away Wednesday, September 19, 2012, surrounded by his family and friends. Frank, whose career began in advertising, was Senior Vice President of Marketing for Jackson Dawson Communications.  He was respected and appreciated by team members throughout Jackson Dawson and Ford Motor Company alike, for his

19 09, 2012

Cancer Can’t Break Love – Frank Couzens

By |2017-11-10T21:06:00-05:00September 19th, 2012|Cancer, Chemo, Couzens, Detroit, Food, Less Cancer, Uncategorized|

Center Bill Couzens, Right Frank Couzens, Left Sister Margaret and Second Row Sister Carol My brother Frank is now in a hospital bed at the Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit, Michigan. Frank devastated from effects of Cancer and the harsh treatments that come with it. This will be my second sibling to die of cancer. And

19 09, 2012

The Pill -Excerpt From Cancer Schmancer by Fran Drescher

By |2017-11-10T21:06:00-05:00September 19th, 2012|Cancer, Cancer Schmancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Couzens, Fran Drescher, Less Cancer|

I remember Elaine had spent a year complaining about leg pain before being dianosed with a blocked artery by a vascular doctor. Until that point she'd been told she needed back surgery for a compressed disc.  Her fear of surgery kept her searching for another diagnosis, though, and she eventually found her way to Mind Over

9 09, 2012

The Power of Pooze – By Miles O’Brien

By |2017-11-10T21:06:00-05:00September 9th, 2012|Aileen O'Brien Graef, Bill Couzens, boing boing, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Schmancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Couzens, Detroit, GMO, GMOs, lance Armstrong, Less Cancer, Maryann Donovan, Mia Farrow, michael moore, Michigan, Miles O'Brien, New Hampshire, Phillp Morris, Prevention, Thomas M Sherman, Tom Sherman, Uncategorized, Virginia, Xeni Jardin|

Below is the beautiful tribute Less Cancer Board Member, Journalist, Miles O'Brien had to say about his sister Aileen O'Brien Graef.  A last hurrah, a summer break Aileen and Miles O'Brien in this beautiful moment captured by Miles daughter Connery O'Brien. The Power of Pooze By Miles O'Brien We may not be in

7 09, 2012

Hugh-ville- A State of Heart

By |2017-11-10T21:06:01-05:00September 7th, 2012|Breast Cancer, Cancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Less Cancer, MIddleburg, Middleburg Virginia, ORGANIC|

 Hugh-ville may sound as if its a place that lept of the pages of a Dr. Seuss.  It did not. For Hugh-ville is not a place but rather a state of heart. In my rural Virginia community we had a little boy by the name of Hugh Wiley who fought a courageous battle against lymphoma.

6 09, 2012

The Stanford McStudy

By |2017-11-10T21:06:01-05:00September 6th, 2012|Bill Couzens, boing boing, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Couzens, Farming, Food, GMO, GMOs, Less Cancer, ORGANIC|

News of the latest Stanford study published in  Annals of Internal Medicine  says that the published literature lacks strong evidence that organic foods are significantly more nutritious than conventional foods. Consumption of organic foods may reduce exposure to pesticide residues and antibiotic-resistant bacteria. A message for me, the "non- scientist" that was not so much about what

20 08, 2012

Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health-Air Pollution Associated with Asthma Development Among Young Children

By |2017-11-10T21:06:01-05:00August 20th, 2012|Asthma, Bill Couzens, Cancer, Chemical Companies, Chemo, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health, Couzens, Less Cancer, Maryann Donovan, New York, Thomas M Sherman, Uncategorized|

NEW YORK (August 20, 2012) Exposure to air pollution in the womb and continuing exposure during early childhood increase risk for development of non-atopic asthma, according to a study by researchers at Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health  at the Mailman School of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Sciences and Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Pyrene -a

26 07, 2012

1 in 20 Cases of Melanoma Linked to Tanning Beds

By |2017-11-10T21:07:02-05:00July 26th, 2012|Chemo, Less Cancer|

From Health Day News  -- European study supports warnings to avoid tanning beds and cut your risk from skin cancer. The study estimates that one in every 20 cases (5.4 percent) of the most lethal form of skin cancer, melanoma, can be attributed to tanning bed use. The story by Steven Reinberg reports that those that bronze

6 04, 2012

Walking the Walk…Talking the Talk

By |2017-11-10T21:07:03-05:00April 6th, 2012|American Cancer Society, Barbie, Bill Couzens, Chemo, Choose you, Coca-Cola, Coke, Couzens, Doll, Less Cancer, Mattel, McDonalds, Phillp Morris, Sprite, Sprite Zero|

Let me just preface this by saying I understand that not everyone shares identical goals. I also understand that when they share goals it may look different to one person than it does to another - or me. That's why Less Cancer works with everyone, why we avoid the politics as we work to stop

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