Cancer prevention with nutrition and lifestyle

Kerschbaum & Nüssler (2019) state that 30-50% of all cancer cases are preventable by following a healthy diet and lifestyle, as recommended by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF). Many people will have heard that to enhance health, it is important to maintain a healthy weight, be physically active, and eat a balanced plant-based diet with minimal amounts of fast foods, sugar-sweetened drinks, red meat, and alcohol, but these figures are still shocking. Lifestyle changes can help prevent cancer as well as other non-communicable diseases, but a small percentage of the population are following the WCRF’s published recommendations. The authors’ key message in this article was that new policies are needed urgently, promoting healthy lifestyle choices, and creating positive environments in order to reduce the prevalence of cancers and non-communicable diseases. [NPID: cancer, inflammation, plant-based, non-communicable diseases]

Year: 2019

Reference: Kerschbaum, E., & Nüssler, V. (2019). Cancer Prevention with Nutrition and Lifestyle. Visceral medicine, 35(4), 204–209. https://doi.org/10.1159/000501776

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