| September
9, 2008
Can You Really Prevent Cancer?
Interview
with Dr. David Servan-Schreiber, author of
Anti Cancer
| Mike
Carruthers:
As much as we dread the idea of getting cancer
there's a perception by many that it's kind of like the lottery - if you get it,
you get it.
Dr.
Philip Zimbardo:
A report was published in October 2007 by the
World Cancer Research Fund showing that up to eighty percent of cancers can be
prevented with simple life-style measures. Dr.
David Servan-Schreiber, author of the book Anti
Cancer a New Way of Life, says despite this… There's
no question that since the Second World War there's been a very major increase
in the number of cancer cases and it's not just from the population getting older
because we see the same increase in children and adolescents that's been going
up 1.5% per year since 1970. So
what can we do to reduce our cancer risk?
Dr. Servan-Schreiber
says it doesn't take much. Just changing dietary habits: more omega-3 fatty acids,
more vegetables, more fruits that contain anti-cancer chemicals. Just that and
thirty minutes of physical activity (it doesn't mean exercise - just walking to
work for example) thirty minutes, six times a week. If you combine these two things
you would reduce the risk of cancer by forty percent. And
there's even more you can do. Now
if you tacked on not smoking, that's another forty percent and not drinking more
than two glasses of alcohol per day, that's another ten percent. So you can add
up to eighty percent. Tomorrow
some of the super foods that can reduce your risk of getting cancer - I'm Mike
Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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