Doing more exercise and drinking less alcohol sounds like advice from a nagging mother.
But experts say such lifestyle changes really can cut a person's risk of cancer.
More than 84,000 cases of the disease could be prevented a year if Britons lost weight, took more exercise or cut back on drinking, experts claim.
They estimate that almost a third of the common types of cancer could be avoided by adopting a healthier lifestyle.
This includes 20,300 cases of breast cancer, 19,800 cases of bowel cancer, 2,200 cases of kidney cancer and 1,400 pancreatic cancer.
The World Cancer Research Fund, which carried out the analysis, said even ‘simple changes’ such as doing ten minutes exercise a day could make a difference.
Here, experts reveal the 10 simple things you can do to cut your risk of 13 types of cancer.
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Some of this is good, but there is a lot of bad advice in this article, especially the part that tries to link vitamin/mineral supplements to cancer.
ReplyDeleteThat's just plain wrong.
You can't avoid cancer. Those that are going to get cancer will get it, and those you don't won't.
ReplyDeleteQuit trying to blame cancer on bad habits
The public will never know the reason for the skyrocketing cancer rates since the seventies. There IS cause and effect, and our government knows it. Just like the nuclear tests of the fifties, the government was actually measuring the cancer rates attributable to the tests....cancer rates caused to its own citizens by the government's own tests. We are being poisoned every day, in our food, in our water, and in our air, by practices that our government approves and sanctions. A 25% chance of getting cancer in your lifetime is an acceptable risk, to those in power.
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