Healthy lifestyle can prevent breast cancer

By adopting a healthy lifestyle, which includes eating healthy, curbing alcohol and exercising, women can prevent the occurrence of the fatal breast cancer, according to a study.
Taking half an hour of physical exercise a day, limiting alcohol consumption to just one drink daily and losing weight can help ward off the risk of breast cancer, according to the World Cancer Research Fund.
The Telegraph quoted Dr Rachel Thompson, deputy head of science at WCRF, as saying, "It is very worrying that in the UK there are still tens of thousands of cases of breast cancer which could be prevented every year. Breast cancer can be prevented by cutting down on drinking, being more physically active and carrying less body fat."
She added,"There is convincing evidence that alcohol consumption increases the risk of breast cancer. In postmenopausal women there is convincing evidence that body fatness also increases risk and there is evidence that regular physical activity probably reduces the risk of breast cancer."
According to statistics, 47,600 women developed breast cancer in 2008 and a quater had tumour who died.
However, the WCRF estimates that 42% of these cases, around 20,000 cancers could have been prevented if women developed healthier lifestyles.
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