Those who adhere to the recommendations to prevent cancer have a reduced risk of fourteen types of lifestyle-related cancer. It sounds obvious, but researchers felt it necessary to confirm that this also applies to the latest guidelines from 2018. They write that BMC Medicine.
These are recommendations from the World Cancer Research Fund and its American sister organization. Since 2018, these have been slightly different from the 2007 version. For example, ‘eat less salt’ was removed and ‘limit the consumption of sweetened drinks’ was added. You should also eat more fiber now. In broad terms it is advice: don’t get too heavy, eat healthy, limit alcohol and fast food and exercise enough.
The researchers used data from almost 95,000 British adults with an average age of 65 and looked at their self-reported eating and exercise habits, their BMI and waist circumference. Those who best adhered to the recommendations scored the maximum of 7 points. The average was 3.8.
Of the entire group, 8 percent turned out to develop cancer within 8 years. For every point that people scored higher in following the recommendations, the risk of cancer decreased by 7 percent. The people in the best scoring group (from 4.5 points) had a 16 percent lower risk of cancer than the group with the unhealthiest lifestyle (3.5 points or lower). With certain types of cancer the benefit is even greater, such as liver, ovarian and gallbladder cancer.
2023-11-28 13:02:01
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