Some Lifestyles Could Lead to Breast Cancer

Breast cancer might not only result from your genes. New research shows that having an unhealthy lifestyle could provoke the outburst.

Up to a third of breast cancer cases could actually be avoided if women ate less and exercised more, it is claimed. This issue was discussed at the European Breast Cancer Conference last week. One of the participants, Carlo La Vecchia of Milan University told the conference; “What can be achieved with screening has been achieved. It’s time to move on to other things”. The Italian epidemiologist La Vecchia also said that 25 to 30 percent of cases would be avoided if women were thinner and did more exercise.

The World Cancer Research Fund has noted that at least 60 percent of the world’s population does not achieve the minimum recommendation for physical activity. As known before, obesity is not only linked to breast cancer, but a number of other cancer types, such as bowel, pancreas, kidney, and endometrium cancer.

Inactivity is a huge problem in the Western world, and the numbers are higher among girls and women. Physical inactivity is estimated to cause as much as 2 million deaths worldwide annually. The highest rates of inactivity are in European WHO member States with low child and high adult mortality (such as Russia, Ukraine, Hungary and Latvia) rates. The lowest rate of inactivity is seen in the high mortality region of Africa (e.g. South Africa, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe and Kongo).

However, as mentioned before, it is not only physical activity that is beneficial if you want to avoid breast cancer. Studies show that drinking one large glass of wine a day increases the chances of developing breast cancer by 20 percent. Dr. Rachel Thompson said that the WCRF had reviewd 954 separate studies, and can conclude that “the evidence is now convincing that drinking alcohol, being physically inactive and having excess body fat all increase risk of breast cancer.”

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