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Healthy Eating and Active Living Research Highlights


Obesity, lack of physical activity, and poor diet are major risk factors for cancer – second only to tobacco use.

According to Cancer Facts and Figures 2022, about 18% of cancer cases and 16% of cancer deaths are related to the combined effects of excess body weight, alcohol consumption, physical inactivity, and unhealthy diet, and thus could be prevented.