How to Be a Conscious Eater

lung, and prostate. Ultimately, if you can sustain habits that

are generally good for health and body weight—eat a flexitar-

ian diet consisting of mostly whole foods, avoid tobacco, keep

alcohol in moderation, and move your body each day—you

will at the same time reduce your total lifetime odds of get-

ting cancer.

Take charge! To get a feel for your individual risk

for not only twelve cancers but six common chronic

diseases—and gain ideas for preventing them—

I highly recommend spending some time with the

interactive online resource yourdiseaserisk.org.

Provided by the Siteman Cancer Center at Washington

University in St. Louis, the Your Disease Risk™ tool is

rigorously designed yet extremely user-friendly.

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