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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.
Frequent consumers of foods packed with carotenoids may have a low tendency of developing stroke and other cardiovascular disorders.
Individuals who are cigarette smokers may be highly vulnerable to pancreatic cancer.
A decline in non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk is associated with frequent consumers of foods high in carotenoids, such as alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, and beta-cryptoxanthin.
Smoking is associated with increased predisposition to rectal cancer in both men and women.
