No. 1 Way to Slash Your Cancer Risk


Eat your broccoli, green beans, spinach and eggplant. While you're at it, grab an apple, orange or pear. Eating six servings of fruits and vegetables every day--that's just one extra serving from what you should be eating now--appears to reduce your risk by 29 percent of ever developing cancer in the head or neck area, the sixth leading cause of all cancer deaths worldwide.

That's the word from a large study of 500,000 Americans age 50 and older that was conducted by the National Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Reuters reports that while numerous studies have shown that diet plays a role in cancer, doctors now think that up to two-thirds of all cases of cancer are caused by such lifestyle factors as smoking, an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise. In other words, many types of cancer may be preventable.