You’ve heard that maintaining a healthy lifestyle can lower your risk of developing cancer, but new research shows just how much of an impact it can have. According to a new study published in the journal JAMA Oncology, up to 40 percent of cancer cases can be prevented by making small healthy tweaks to your lifestyle.
For the study, researchers tracked more than 135,000 people and found that about 20 to 40 percent of cancer cases and about half of cancer deaths can be prevented by following a “healthy lifestyle pattern.” People who met that criteria never smoked or no longer smoked, didn’t drink heavily(women had one drink a day or less and men had two or fewer drinks a day), had a BMI between 18.5 to 27.5, and did either 150 minutes of moderate physical activity or 75 minutes of “vigorous” physical activity a week.
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