Sad news on the prevention front……and I somewhat expected this. According to a survey conducted for the BBC’s Newsnight Program, two thirds of people have not changed their diet or lifestyle to reduce the risk of cancer.
Despite evidence and public health campaigns that highlight diet and lifestyle as a cause of between a third to a half of all cancers, people aren’t making those changes.
Many choose to bury their heads in the sand instead—men being almost twice as likely as women to do so. The poll of 1,000 adults found over a third said that they tried to ignore cancer or hardly ever think about it.
I give prevention talks all the time – and it continues to sadden and amaze me when people make a conscious decision to continue to eat and move and live with abandon until they have a health crisis before they’ll do something for their own health.
Why wait for a diagnosis?
Kim Dalzell, PhD, RD
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