Exercise might prevent your risk of cancer.(Photo: Lefteris Pitarakis, AP)
Americans can prevent their risk of dying from cancer simply by maintaining a healthy lifestyle, according to a new<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
study in the Journal of the American Medical Association Oncology. Such lifestyle change<span style="color: Red;">*</span>would decrease cancer deaths by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>67 percent for<span style="color: Red;">*</span>men and 59 percent for<span style="color: Red;">*</span>women. Similarly, a healthy lifestyle would drop<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the discovery of new cancers by 41 percent in women and 63 percent in men.
What does this study mean by a "healthy lifestyle"? Don’t smoke, don't drink too much,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>maintain a body mass index between 18.5 and 27.5, and exercise 75 to 150 minutes weekly.
So, maybe it’s time to cut back a drink or two at happy hour and jump on an elliptical.
About 89,500 white women and 46,300 white men participated in the study, which<span style="color: Red;">*</span>looked at deaths of carcinoma (all cancers except skin, brain, lymphatic, hematologic<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and nonfatal prostate malignancies). The study only looked at Caucasians to avoid any "racial distributions."
In 2014, 16.8 percent of Americans were identified as smokers<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(smoked almost every day or have smoked at least 100 cigarettes in their lifetime), according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
An estimated<span style="color: Red;">*</span>595,690 Americans are expected to die of cancer this year, according to the
American Cancer Society.
The study published in JAMA analyzed data from the Nurses’ Health Study, the Health Professionals Follow-up Study<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and national cancer statistics.
A healthy lifestyle has been shown to reduce the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>risk of a number of wellness<span style="color: Red;">*</span>concerns,
including memory decline.
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study published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in January 2015 challenges this new cancer research. It attributes cancer risk to stem cell divisions, not lifestyle, saying the majority of people who<span style="color: Red;">*</span>get cancer have “bad luck,” although some<span style="color: Red;">*</span>environmental factors and family genetics can play a role.
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