A balanced diet
Keeping a well-balanced diet certainly involves advantages for our health.
It is possible to assume that some foods have a positive effect in the prevention of some digestive tract tumours.
Studying these effects in a scientifically sound way is problematic partly because a large number of individuals have to be studied to ensure that research is reliable and because dietary habits are not constant but vary over time even in the same person.
There is one study underway designed to define the correlation between diet and cancer:
the Epic Study.
According to its preliminary results, fibers seem to have a fundamental role in the prevention of colo-rectal tumours.
In this case too, the guiding principle is common sense more than scientific evidence: try not to exceed your daily calorie requirement, eat fruit and vegetables and prefer vegetable to animal-origin fats.
