Basic Pursuits

Newsweek takes on explaining why diet and exercise changes could prevent 70 percent of cancers.

Eat less. Eat better. Exercise.

Your Lifestyle, Your Genes and Cancer

The American Institute for Cancer Research has issued its second report on cancer prevention. Here's what it recommends:

The World Cancer Research Fund recently released a report telling many of us what we already know: that lifestyle is a huge determiner for cancer risk. Specifically, about one third of cancers are due smoking. Smoking 20 cigarettes a day increases your risk of lung cancer20-fold). Another third come from poor eating habits and lack of exercise. The last third includes: "genetic predisposition, ultraviolet sunlight, pollutants such as
pesticides, and other factors including cosmic radiation and a
naturally occurring radioactive gas called radon."