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PostSubject: Thousands of cancer diagnoses tied to a poor diet, study finds   Thousands of cancer diagnoses tied to a poor diet, study finds Icon_minitimeThu May 23, 2019 2:26 am

Your diet may have more impact on your cancer risk than you might think, a new study has found.
An estimated 80,110 new cancer cases among adults 20 and older in the United States in 2015 were attributable simply to eating a poor diet, according to the study, published in the JNCI Cancer Spectrum on Wednesday.
"This is equivalent to about 5.2% of all invasive cancer cases newly diagnosed among US adults in 2015," said Dr. Fang Fang Zhang, a nutrition and cancer epidemiologist at Tufts University in Boston, who was first author of the study.
"This proportion is comparable to the proportion of cancer burden attributable to alcohol," she said.

More:  https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/22/health/diet-cancer-risk-study/index.html
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