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Your Lifestyle, Your Genes and Cancer [1]

We've known for a long time that a high-fat diet, obesity and lack of exercise can increase the risk of developing heart disease and type 2 diabetes, two conditions that affect millions of Americans. What we are finding out now is that those same lifestyle factors also play an important role in cancer. That's the bad news. The good news is that you can do something about your lifestyle.

Publication Date: 
30/06/2008
Newsweek (New York) [2]
Tags:
Lifestyles [3], Cancer [4], Medical Research [5], Obesity [6], United States Of America (US) [7]
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