Healthy Lifestyle Can Prevent Commonly-occuring Cancers

Healthy Lifestyle Can Prevent Commonly-occuring Cancers

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Yes, claims a new research initiated by a team of scientists from the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) that found that commonlyoccurring cancers can be cut by one-third in the U.S., China, and Britain by switching to a healthy living.

According to the study, adopting a healthy lifestyle can reduce breast, colon, stomach, and prostate cancer by 40 percent in the Britain and the United States, alone.

"It is distressing that even in 2011, people are dying unnecessarily from cancers that could be prevented through maintaining a healthy weight, diet, physical activity and other lifestyle factors," Martin Wiseman, a WCRF medical and scientific adviser, said.

Cancer prevention data
The WCRF data suggested that 620,000 cases could be prevented in China and 340,000 in the United States. Also, healthier lifestyles could prevent 61,000 cancers in Brazil and 79,000 in Britain.

"It's all very well us saying 'this is what you need to eat and this is how much physical activity you need to do', but we need to make it easier for people to make those changes. Everybody has a role in that -- from international organizations, to governments, to people themselves, Rachel Thompson, the WCRF's deputy head of science, said.

Improve your lifestyle, say researchers
World Health Organization has supported the WCRF findings saying regular exercising can prevent chronic diseases like cancers, heart diseases, and diabetes.

The study findings found that inactive living accounted for around 21 to 25 percent of breast and colon cancers, 27 percent diabetes, and 30 percent of heart diseases, globally.

WHO spokesperson said, Adults should do at least 150 minutes of moderate exercise a week. This could be done by walking for 30 minutes five times per week or by cycling to work every day.

World Lung Foundations Chairman Peter Baldini has also urged the government to initiate no-smoking laws and to raise the taxes on cigarettes as millions are killed because of tobacco, every year.

Among the non-smokers, coming in contact with second-hand smoking, hundreds of thousands lose their lives due to tobacco.

"There isn't a magic bullet to cure all forms of cancer, but we have the opportunity and the obligation to protect people from developing cancer wherever possible," Baldini said, adding that government needed to step up its efforts to help the people lead healthier lifestyles.

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