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Be thin to cut cancer risks
The World Cancer Research Fund examined over 7000 studies about lifestyle and cancer. Their conclusion was that people who have lower BMI levels have a reduced risk of cancer. While 2/3 of cancer may not be related to lifestyle, the risks of developing cancer are related to a number of lifestyle factors, excess weight being one of them. Even those whose BMI is 25 should strive to lower their BMI to reduce their risk of cancers.
Cancers of the colon and breast are some of the most common forms of the disease, and the report says the evidence is "convincing" that body fat plays a key role in the development of these tumous.
The report also links the kind of food consumed to cancers, especially colo-rectal ones.
In particular, researchers say people should stop eating processed meats, such as ham, bacon and salami, and limit the consumption of red meat to 500g a week - although this still means you could eat, for instance, five hamburgers each week.
Cancer specialist Professor Karol Sikora said: "The educational message for the public should be that there are healthy diets and unhealthy diets but we should keep everything in perspective and not suggest rigid avoidance.
"Alcohol, red meat and bacon in moderation will do us no harm, and to suggest it will is wrong."
Antonia Dean, a specialist at Breast Cancer Care, said: "it is notoriously difficult to examine the potential role of diets or other lifestyle factors on breast cancer, as it is hard to isolate specific influences or establish how they might interact with each other.
"It is important that women keep the report findings in perspective - after gender, the highest known risk factor in relation to breast cancer is age, with 80 per cent of cases occurring in women over the age of 50."
The laparoscopic adjustable band provides a method to allow you to get to a lower BMI, and maintain that -- along with a healthy diet. This lifestyle change is something we help you with and advocate.
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