Study: Tree nuts decrease cancer risk while processed meats increase risk

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Reducing Risk After Cancer: Healthy Lifestyle (and Tree Nuts)

Roxanne Nelson, BSN, RN
May 18, 2017

Patients with cancer often ask what they can do to help themselves. New data from a long-running trial in patients with early-stage colorectal cancer confirm that following a healthy lifestyle reduces the risk for death from cancer. A companion analysis adds a new finding: So does eating tree nuts.

The new findings come from questionnaires completed by patients with stage III colorectal cancer during and after adjuvant chemotherapy.
"We found that patients who had a healthy body weight; engaged in regular physical activity; ate a diet high in vegetables, fruits, [and] whole grains and low in processed meats and red meats; and drank small to moderate amounts of alcohol had longer disease-free and overall survival than patients who did not," said lead study author, Erin Van Blarigan, ScD, assistant professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco.

Following a healthy lifestyle cut the risk for death by 42%, and adding moderate alcohol consumption to the analysis further reduced the risk for death, by 15%.

Dr Van Blarigan was speaking at a presscast preceding the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), at which the full results will be presented.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/880218


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[Zippyjuan]

Kinda hard to say that one factor was more important than any of the rest.

a healthy body weight; engaged in regular physical activity; ate a diet high in vegetables, fruits, [and] whole grains and low in processed meats and red meats; and drank small to moderate amounts of alcohol

Exercise regularly, eat a varied diet with moderation in everything.