{"id":7494,"date":"2016-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/mind-body-4-ways-to-slash-cancer-risk\/"},"modified":"2016-05-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T00:00:00","slug":"mind-body-4-ways-to-slash-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/mind-body-4-ways-to-slash-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"If We All Did These 4 Things, It Would Cut the Cancer Death Rate in Half"},"content":{"rendered":"
If you’ve ever doubted that a few healthy lifestyle changes can actually lower your risk of cancer, well, think again.<\/p>\n
The authors of a new study suggest that 20% to 40% of cancer cases—and about 50% of all deaths from cancer<\/a>—might be prevented if we all did these four things: exercise regularly, maintain a healthy BMI, stay smoke-free, and skip booze or drink only in moderation.<\/p>\n That’s it—or, rather, that might be enough<\/em> to slash cancer rates and deaths, according to the research published today by JAMA Oncology<\/em>.<\/p>\n While similar research on the link between cancer and lifestyle factors has been done in the past, “it’s been a while, and the lifestyle profile in the U.S. has changed dramatically,” says lead author Mingyang Song, MD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston. “We want to provide an updated picture.”<\/p>\n RELATED: <\/strong>Yes, the Bacon-Cancer Link Is Real, But Here's Why You Shouldn't Freak Out<\/a><\/p>\n But there was another reason behind Dr. Song’s research: It was done in response to a January 2015 study published in Science<\/em><\/a>, which suggested that a third of the cancer risk across tissues in the body might be caused by the environment or genetics; and the rest might be caused by random DNA mutations in stem cells (in other words, bad luck). That finding, however, was misinterpreted by the media, and left some of the public thinking that most cancers themselves<\/em> were due to random chance.<\/p>\n <\/span>