Cancer is a Preventable Disease that Requires Major Lifestyle Changes
With a mere 5 to 10 percent of cancer cases caused by genetic defects, 90 to 95 percent are attributable to environmental and lifestyle factors. A detailed research paper published on a National Institutes of Health (NIH) website uses a number of studies in its examination of the effects of tobacco, alcohol, poor diet, obesity, infectious agents, environmental pollution, and radiation on cancer rates, as well as factors that can help prevent cancer such as fruit and vegetable consumption. The researchers draw from a vast sea of data to conclude that cancer-causing and cancer-preventing factors are linked through chronic inflammation. (Pharmaceutical Research: January 2008)