Basic Pursuits

The World Cancer Research Fund recently released a report telling many of us what we already know: that lifestyle is a huge determiner for cancer risk. Specifically, about one third of cancers are due smoking. Smoking 20 cigarettes a day increases your risk of lung cancer20-fold). Another third come from poor eating habits and lack of exercise. The last third includes: "genetic predisposition, ultraviolet sunlight, pollutants such as
pesticides, and other factors including cosmic radiation and a
naturally occurring radioactive gas called radon."

Here's a chart that summarizes lifestyle risks:

Achieving healthy body weight and meeting nutritional needs through diet alone are two of goals here at Basic Pursuits. The only way one can comprehensively accomplish this is by using technology to measure what we eat and construct better eating plans.

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