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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.
Individuals who are cigarette smokers may be highly vulnerable to pancreatic cancer.
Smoking is associated with increased predisposition to rectal cancer in both men and women.
Frequent consumption of foods loaded with lycopene, lutein, zeaxathin, beta-carotenoids, alpha-carotenoids, and beta-cryptoxanthin may help boost an individual's defenses against prostate cancer.
Individuals who follow a plant-based dietary pattern are less likely to suffer from heart failure.
Cigarette smoking may promote the development of some types of age-related cataracts, such as nuclear and posterior subcapsular cataracts.
