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Feb 26, 2009 8:10 pm US/Eastern

Reduce Your Cancer Risk With A Healthy Lifestyle

Diet & Exercise Can Prevent A Number Of Cancers

(CBS4) For years health officials have pressed people to eat healthy and get plenty of exercise. Now a new international study has found that a large number of common cancers can be prevented through diet, exercise and weight management.

In addition to not or quitting smoking, the joint study be American and British scientists found that maintaining a healthy lifestyle is the most important thing you can do for cancer prevention.

"Your lifestyle, the ways of life of people follow really dramatically important in determining their own cancer risk and indeed the different patterns of cancer around the world," said Professor Martin Wiseman, the project director for the study.

According to the cancer report, about a third of the most common cancers in the U.S. can be prevented 'through lifestyle'. The report found that healthy eating, activity and especially weight management could prevent 38-percent of breast cancers in the U.S. and 45-percent of bowel cancers.

The cancer report also makes 48 recommendations for new "clean living" policy changes that can be implemented by government, industry and our nation's schools; items include banning junk food in vending machines and adding bicycle lanes to public roads.

The report concludes that all sections of society, from governments to households, should make public health, and cancer prevention in particular, a higher priority.

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