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Eating nuts several times a week reduces the risk of heart attack by up to 50%. Eating whole meal bread instead of white bread reduced non-fatal heart attack risk by 45%. Drinking 5 or more glasses of water a day may reduce heart disease by 50%. Men who had a high consumption of tomatoes reduced their risk of prostate cancer by 40%.
For breast cancer, there is a replicated trend for women with a more "prudent or healthy" diet, i.e. higher in fruits and vegetables, to have a lower risk of cancer. [18] Unhealthy dietary patterns are associated with a higher body mass index suggesting a potential mediating effect of obesity on cancer risk. [19]
Cancer slope factors (CSF) are used to estimate the risk of cancer associated with exposure to a carcinogenic or potentially carcinogenic substance. A slope factor is an upper bound, approximating a 95% confidence limit , on the increased cancer risk from a lifetime exposure to an agent by ingestion or inhalation .
Nuts are a nutrient dense, healthy snack option, but can they help you lose weight? Dietitians lay out the 6 best nuts in add into your diet for weight loss.
Nuts have several nutrients that can be helpful for heart health including unsaturated fatty acids that are linked to lower levels of cholesterol in the blood. Researchers find a handful of nuts a ...
The report, published Monday in Nature Medicine, revealed a previously unknown risk from excessive amounts of the vitamin, which is found in many foods, including meat, fish, nuts, and fortified ...
About 75-80% of all cancers in the United States are preventable, if risk factors are avoided [4] (also see (Cancer prevention). Obesity appears to be the third most important risk factor for cancer in the United States, just behind tobacco and diet (see Figure). Obesity is the source of about 15% of all preventable cancers. [5] [6] [7]
Lung Cancer Dataset Lung cancer dataset without attribute definitions 56 features are given for each case 32 Text Classification 1992 [270] [271] Z. Hong et al. Arrhythmia Dataset Data for a group of patients, of which some have cardiac arrhythmia. 276 features for each instance. 452 Text Classification 1998 [272] [273] H. Altay et al.