Does Leading A Healthy Lifestyle Really Prevent Cancer?

Forbes ^ | Tech #Medicine JAN 9, 2018

[nickcarraway]

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Does leading a healthy lifestyle really prevent cancer? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

Answer by Adriana Heguy, molecular biologist, genomics researcher, on Quora:

If you understand cancer prevention as taking measures to reduce the risk of developing cancer, then yes, leading a healthy lifestyle will prevent cancer. But not 100%. It’s always a matter of risk reduction. If you have genetic factors, you may not avoid cancer. Sometimes people just get unlucky: the wrong cell mutates at the wrong time, and you still end up with cancer.

But a healthy lifestyle is part of an overall strategy of cancer prevention, that should include screening as recommended by your doctor, for early detection.

Some concrete examples of healthy lifestyle and cancer prevention:

Do not smoke [1] .

Smoking, a main cause of small cell and non-small cell lung cancer, contributes to 80 percent and 90 percent of lung cancer deaths in women and men, respectively. Men who smoke are 23 times more likely to develop lung cancer. Women are 13 times more likely, compared to never smokers.

Between 2005 and 2010, an average of 130,659 Americans (74,300 men and 56,359 women) died of smoking-attributable lung cancer each year. Exposure to secondhand smoke causes approximately 7,330 lung cancer deaths among nonsmokers every year.

[MD Expat in PA]

It appears that the MD stands for Maryland and not Medical Doctor.

True. But neither are you. But then I have never ever claimed to be a Medical Doctor. But that doesn’t mean I can’t smell BS when I step in it.

But you have claimed all sorts of things….

BTW do you wear your Winnie the Pooh costume when you are detecting fear or cancer in people or do you just wear that when you are allegedly running literacy programs while practicing your pseudoscience on unsuspecting children and in between practicing as a tax attorney, or as a tax law professor, or a CPA running a department of a big accounting firm or while doing your “research” in neurobiology and claiming to be a neuroscientist yet refusing to divulge from what institution you obtained any sort of degree in that area.

And you are a pretty lousy CPA or tax law professor.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3617499/posts?page=51#51

[tired&retired]

Smile... Your attitude is showing.

I have been called a “Renaissance Man” quite often in my life. I’m just a bit beyond eclectic. Wierd is also a description of me that fits.

[Toespi]

I just know of too many people who have been runners, bicyclists, vegans, and massive supplement and vitamin users who have cancer or died of cancer.

[MD Expat in PA]

I have been called a “Renaissance Man” quite often in my life. I’m just a bit beyond eclectic. Weird is also a description of me that fits.

I would say that BS artist would be a more fitting description.

Once again, you refuse to tell us from where you got any degree in neuroscience or even from where you got your degree in accounting or in tax law or how you were credentialed to run any sort of “literacy” program when you can’t even spell “weird”.

[lee martell]

Fascinating. If inclined, you ought to write a book about this. If not a ‘book’ per se, then just talk about it on YouTube and post the message. Radio Hosts like George Noory of Coast to Coast may wish to talk to you. I’ll bet many private individuals have had a similar experience, but our western culture has almost no way of describing it in a manner understood by the majority.
Good luck to you and wishes for your inner peace.

[xrmusn]

Maybe they should not have eaten the beans.....