Lead a healthy lifestyle and flee from sedentary lifestyle can help us avoid all kinds of diseases like different types of cancer. Specifically, follow the recommendations of those known as lifestyle indices they decrease the risk of developing pathologies such as colorectal cancer.
This disease, which in 2018 accounted for almost two million new cases, is the second most frequent cancer in women and the third in men. Furthermore, as numerous investigations indicate, it would be related directly with diets rich in processed meats and with high consumption of alcoholic drinks.
Conversely, following the recommendations of healthy living rates can reduce the risk of developing this type of cancer, by up to 48%. A figure that increases above 50%, in case of complying with most of the recommendations of the Index of Low Risk Lifestyle: Do not smoke, do not drink alcohol, do regular physical activities daily, maintain an adequate body mass index and follow a healthy diet.
This series of tips to maintain health would also be related to a lower probability of developing other types of cancer. On the other hand, in the case of colorectal cancer, new research confirms that drink very sugary drinks would increase the risk of this pathology almost 60% compared to a more moderate consumption or no consumption.
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