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Exercising regularly and adhering to diets high in fiber, especially fruit and vegetable fiber, and low in red meat, and fat may help prevent the development of diverticular disease.
Adequate intake of fiber-rich foods, especially fruits and cereals, may help guard against the development of diverticular disease in women.
Low diverticular disease morbidity and mortality risk is associated with individuals on vegetarian and high-fiber diets.
Unhealthy lifestyle and dietary habits, such as cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, physical inactivity, and consumption of diets high in red and processed meats and low in fruits, vegetables, fiber, and calcium, may increase an individual's risk of developing cancer.
Alcohol consumers are highly vulnerable to oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, esophageal (squamous cell carcinoma), liver, breast, and colorectal cancers.
Adoption of healthy lifestyle habits, such as consuming of diets low in meat and high in fiber, exercising regularly, maintenance of healthy weight, and avoidance of cigarette smoking, may help protect individuals from diverticulitis.
Children and adolescents on low-fat diets are less prone to develop cardiovascular disease.
High intake of animal-based diets may increase an individual’s susceptibility to inflammatory bowel disease.
Colorectal cancer patients on high-fiber diets may have a low tendency of dying from the disease.
A decline in total, cancer, and cardiovascular mortality risk is associated with frequent consumption of generous portions of whole grains.
Cigarette smoking may promote the development of mucinous type of epithelial ovarian cancer in women.
