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Healthy Lifestyle Beats Breast Cancer

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Healthy lifestyle tackles breast cancer.

Women that are genetically predisposed to a higher risk of breast cancer can significantly reduce it by adopting a healthy lifestyle.

Recent research has shown that it does not matter whether you are more likely to develop breast cancer or not as long as you know how to protect yourself.

Prevention is a crucial element if you want to have a healthy life. Therefore, scientists explained that white women with a high risk of developing breast cancer who did not use hormone replacement therapy did not smoke, did not drink alcohol and maintained a healthy body index had almost the same risk of developing breast cancer as the other white women in the United States.

The average 30-year-old white woman usually has an 11% chance of developing breast cancer by 80 years old. A team of scientists made a National Health Interview Study which involved 20,000 healthy white women from the Breast and Prostate Cancer Cohort Consortium, 17,000 white women with breast cancer and other 6,000 female participants.

After analyzing them based on weight, age and the population incidence rates from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program from the National Cancer Institute, the results have shown that healthy lifestyle has a significant effect on reducing the risk of developing breast cancer.

However, further research is needed in order to establish the risk of breast cancer in other ethnic groups of women.

According to Nilanjan Chatterjee, lead author of the study, Ph.D. and a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the Department of Biostatics at the Bloomberg School, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, people usually think that their genetic risk of developing breast cancer is something they cannot change.

Nevertheless, a healthy lifestyle based on daily or weekly physical exercise, no bad habits, and a healthy diet can significantly reduce these risks. Experts underline the importance of eating right, by explaining that 70% of the causes of every illness lie in the fact that people eat unhealthy food.

Breast cancer is a disease that took its toll on the women in the United States. However, scientists doubled their efforts to try and find a new strategy to tackle this problem. Plus, many organizations and volunteers throughout the U.S. are organizing every year many events dedicated to breast cancer survivors.

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Highly Processed Foods, Sodas May Boost Breast, Prostate Cancer Risk

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Highly processed foods rich in bad carbs may boost cancer risk, new research suggests.

New evidence suggests that processed foods containing ‘bad’ carbohydrates may more than double the risk of developing prostate and breast cancers.

The new finding, which was unveiled Mar. 5 Experimental Biology 2016 gathering, shows that curbing consumption of sugary drinks and processed lunch foods may also lower the risk of getting prostate or breast cancer later on.

Dr. Nour Makarem of the New York University and fellow researchers sifted through the health records of more than 3,000 participants who agreed to provide data on their dietary habits. Participants were tracked for more than two decades.

Researchers organized the volunteers’ intake of foods based on glycemic index (GI), which can tell how healthy carbohydrates in one’s diet are based on how they influence blood sugar levels. Next, the research group looked for an association between carbohydrate intake and cancer risk.

Scientists found that eating pizza, prepackaged desserts, hamburgers and other highly processed foods on a regular basis increased the risk of prostate cancer by twofold. Sugary drinks including sodas and sweetened fruit juices boosted that risk threefold, researchers said.

The team also learned that consuming too many foods with a high GI such as bad carbohydrates could boost prostate cancer risk by 88 percent. The study results were adjusted for other risk factors that may influence risk of cancer including age, sex, family history of cancer, history of substance abuse, and so on.

On the other hand, participants who ate carbohydrates with a low GI including whole grains and non-starchy veggies apparently lowered their risk of developing breast cancer by 67 percent.

Scientists noted that the types of carbohydrates we regularly consume have a tremendous influence on our risk of developing cancer. The researchers added that healthy foods containing ‘good’ carbs shield us against the disease. By contrast, fast foods and sweetened beverages boost the risk of both prostate and breast cancers.

But study participants who ate more beneficial carbohydrates also consumed other healthy foods such as fruits, legumes, and vegetables. Study authors concluded that it doesn’t matter the quantity of carbs we consume but their quality.

The findings are consistent with a separate study led by the University of Texas which had revealed that a high intake of foods with high GI is associated with an increased risk of developing lung cancer.

The latest study also found that a regular intake of peas, beans and lentils lowered the risk of cancers triggered by obesity by up to 32 percent.

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