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My father was a big tea drinker, was eating a lot vegetables and fruits... but died of cancer. The think is cancer is so complex you can’t avoid it with TL;DR.
by melicerte 7y ago
My father was a big tea drinker, was eating a lot vegetables and fruits... but died of cancer. The think is cancer is so complex you can’t avoid it with TL;DR.
- TomMarius 7y agoWell nothing will be better if you don't follow that advice, and you can't do much else.
- Retric 7y agoReducing your cancer risk is more about delaying getting cancer until something else killed you. People talk about actions gaining or losing X time from someone’s life. That should not be taken literally as it’s simply a way to interpret statistics. Much like how playing the lottery is a net loss of around 50% of the ticket price. That does not mean you always get 1$ back from a 2$ ticket.
- vharuck 7y agoNot to mention that years of potential life lost is tricky to define, and the method in vogue isn't very good: take all the people with a condition, filter that group down to those who died before age X, and the years of potential life lost is the difference between X and the ages of death. Funnily enough, this method says the name "John" is a condition which reduces your expected lifespan. The method can be improved, but after a certain point it's just a bad imitation of relative survival.
- cageface 7y agoI’m very sorry to hear that. You can massively reduce your risk of diseases like diabetes or heart disease with a healthy diet. Diet can also reduce cancer risk but the effect is much smaller so even with an ideal diet genetics and environmental factors can be more important.
- sizzle 7y agoCombine that with frequent moderate exercise and a healthy BMI to cover your bases for longevity.
- the8472 7y agoStatistical effects are not guarantees that apply to individual examples.