
How Not to Die

Comparing the diets of 100 women with breast cancer to 175 healthy women, researchers concluded that scoring higher on the whole plant food diet index (greater than about thirty compared to less than about eighteen) may reduce the odds of breast cancer more than 90 percent.46
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Your family history does not have to become your personal destiny.
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If you do fry at home, good ventilation in the kitchen may reduce lung cancer risk.24
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Five years later, their telomeres were even longer on average than when they started, suggesting a healthy lifestyle can boost telomerase enzyme activity and reverse cellular aging.71
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Now, however, we know that as soon as we stop eating an artery-clogging diet, our bodies can start healing themselves, in many cases opening up arteries without drugs or surgery.
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They wheeled my grandmother in, and she walked out.
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Data going back fifty years show that a high intake of fruits and vegetables is positively associated with good lung function.36
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fibre they ate. An additional seven grams of
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bacon fumes cause about four times more DNA mutations than the fumes from beef burgers fried at similar temperatures.32