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"Conclusions and Relevance A substantial cancer burden may be prevented through lifestyle modification. Primary prevention should remain a priority for cancer control."
But I believe there's not much money to be made in boring true prevention.
The obvious factors like smoking usually come into play with cancer, But there are people who have followed extremely healthy lifestyles and still got cancer. And others who did the opposite and did not. Genetic makeup comes into play, And also a big part I think are environmental factors. All these chemicals, fillers and the like in food, cleaning products for sure have an impact on people. Sometimes I do laundry and clean and wonder just what the heck are all these things made of? How do they affect us on a cellular level?
We can lower our risks for sure, But there is much we don't know still about this disease, Despite years and billions spent. All one can do is don't start or eliminate bad habits, Stay active and eat as clean as possible.
The obvious factors like smoking usually come into play with cancer, But there are people who have followed extremely healthy lifestyles and still got cancer. And others who did the opposite and did not. Genetic makeup comes into play, And also a big part I think are environmental factors. All these chemicals, fillers and the like in food, cleaning products for sure have an impact on people. Sometimes I do laundry and clean and wonder just what the heck are all these things made of? How do they affect us on a cellular level?
We can lower our risks for sure, But there is much we don't know still about this disease, Despite years and billions spent. All one can do is don't start or eliminate bad habits, Stay active and eat as clean as possible.
Agree 100%. Control the controllable. The rest is out of our control. Fortunately, there is a lot to control.
But unfortunately with 2/3 of the nation obese/overweight, not exercising/very little/living a sedentary lifestyle, and the vast majority of people eating a not so healthy to horrible diet, most aren't anywhere close to living a healthy lifestyle for optimal health, hence lots of cancer, heart "disease", type II diabetes, etc.
Frankly it's surprising to me the human body can handle the onslaught of bad habits for so long so many people throw at it and still carry on for as long as many do before serious health issues finally arise.
As for genetics, a very small % of cancer is attributed to just genetic makeup alone(5-10% estimate) as genes need to be expressed from outside factors/don't act in isolation:
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