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JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004 96(11):822-824; doi:10.1093/jnci/96.11.822
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Dietary Prevention of Cancer: A Smorgasbord of Options for Moving Ahead

Damaris Christensen

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Diet-related factors are thought to account for up to one-third of cancers in developed countries, although there is a broad range of uncertainty attached to these estimates. Cancer prevention experts generally recommend that people maintain a healthy weight, exercise, and eat diets high in fruit, vegetables, and fiber. Much uncertainty, however, remains: some of the observational evidence is contradictory, and some intervention studies looking at the effects of specific nutrients have not confirmed findings from observational studies.


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  		Cancer prevention experts generally recommend that people maintain a healthy weight, exercise, and eat diets high in fruit, vegetables, and fiber. Although there is much uncertainty about the strength of some associations between dietary factors and cancer, the fact remains that such factors affect everyone.

 
The strongest findings support alcohol as a carcinogen at several sites and implicate obesity and physical inactivity in several other cancers, said Arthur Schatzkin, M.D., Dr.P.H., . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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