Poor Choices Cause Nearly Half of Cancer Deaths
Dr. David Brownstein, M.D., writes:
In CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, researchers studied whether lifestyle changes could influence the number of invasive cancer cases and deaths for 26 cancer types. The modifiable risk factors studied were cigarette smoking, secondhand smoke, excess body weight, alcohol intake, consumption of red and processed meat, low consumption of fruits and vegetables, dietary fiber, UV radiation, calcium intake, and physical inactivity.
The researchers estimated that 42% of all cancers and 45% of cancer deaths are attributable to the evaluated risk factors.
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Cigarette smoking accounted for the highest percentage of cancer cases (19%) and deaths (28.8%).
Next was excess body weight, which was responsible for 7.8% of cancer cases and 6.5% of cancer deaths.
To avoid cancer, you should eat a healthy diet free of refined foods as well as antibiotics and pesticides. And it should go without saying that you shouldn’t smoke.
Of all the risk factors studied, cigarette smoking outweighed every other one.
Next in line was excess body weight, followed by alcohol, UV radiation (sun exposure), and physical inactivity. Each of these factors can be modified without drugs or supplements.
Eat well, exercise, and maintain an appropriate body weight. Those three things can help any condition and improve anyone’s health.
Dr. David Brownstein, M.D., editor of the Natural Way to Health newsletter, is a board-certified family physician and one of the nation’s foremost practitioners of holistic medicine. In addition to his practice, Dr. Brownstein has lectured internationally to physicians and is the author of six very popular books.