As you know, cancer is the second leading cause of preventable death here in the US.

And last week, CNN put out an article highlighting a recently published study, finding that

about 40% of all cancer deaths are actually preventable, meaning that lifestyle conditions that you have

volitional choice about whether or not you engage them or not or avoid certain

substances like smoking or being sedentary, etc.

Alcohol consumption really impact the prevalence of cancer and about 230,000 lives every year could be saved if people changed their lifestyle because these lifestyle conditions that we're going to get into

particularly exercise in women. This is really important, you know I'm very biased and pro exercise,

but it turns out that exercise is more protective against breast cancer in women

and women who don't exercise are at higher risk of developing breast cancer and other cancers

compared to men.

So let's dive into it.

The title of the article from CNN,

I'm not a huge fan of this network for obvious reasons

because I feel like they're not totally objective

in their reporting,

but I think this is actually a good piece, titled,

Nearly half of adult cancer deaths in the U.S. could be prevented by making lifestyle changes.

Study fines. Now, we know that obesity is a risk factor for cancer being sedentary smoking drinking alcohol

And they say UV exposure like sun exposure increases risk of melanoma now this is really interesting they also get into H. B. V. in HIV and so forth but the peer-reviewed study that they are

highlighting here that was published in May. This was by folks over at the

CDC and the American Cancer Society, as well as

Stanford University. This actual analysis is titled, Proportion and Number of Cancer

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