Healthy lifestyle New Years resolutions

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Add years to your life with a New Years resolution next week. Lifestyle choices behind 40% of all cancers with smoking, unhealthy diet, obesity, alcohol, skin cancer & physical inactivity all big risk factors.

Add years to your life with a New Years resolution next week. Lifestyle choices behind 40% of all cancers with smoking, unhealthy diet, obesity, alcohol, skin cancer & physical inactivity all big risk factors.

Tuk tuk full of vegetables bought in a local fresh market to prepare food for New Years festivities.

HEALTH

Healthy lifestyle New Years resolutions

As New Years approaches many people will be thinking about making a New Years resolution for the coming year.

A New Years resolution is a promise or vow to oneself to carry out some act of self-improvement in the coming year that usually takes some effort, willpower, determination and perseverance to achieve.

The lifestyle choices a person makes can have a huge impact on whether the person gets cancer in the future and on how long they live (life expectancy).

So making a News Years resolution about leading a healthier life really does make sense.

At least 40% of all cancers could be prevented, if people just lead healthier lives, according to recent research by UK Cancer (See here).

Smoking and unhealthy diet are the two biggest risk factors.

Regular exercise and limiting alcohol consumption are also advised.

The key risk factors discovered in the research (2007-2011) are, out of 600,000 cases total:

1. 300,000+ cases of cancer linked to smoking.
2. 145,000 cases linked to unhealthy diets with too much processed food.
3. 88,000 cases linked to obesity.
4. 62,200 cases linked to alcohol.
5. Sun damage to the skin is another important factor.
6. Physical inactivity (or lack of exercise) is yet another important factor.

The UK public health ministry has many campaigns aimed at raising public awareness about healthy lifestyles that reduce cancer risk such as Smokefree, Dry January and Change4Life Sugar Swaps.

http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/press-release/2014-12-26-lifestyle-behind-more-than-half-a-million-cancers-in-five-years

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-30589712