British Health Study Involving a Million Women

A British women’s health study involving a million women had some interesting conclusions. Here are some of them:

• Don’t smoke.

• Don’t let yourself get overweight. Interestingly, you shouldn’t be too thin either. A body mass index (BMI, your weight in kilograms divided by the square of your height in meters) of around 24 is good.

• Ideally, don’t drink at all.

• Don’t worry about taking the pill when you are young. It protects against ovarian cancer.

• Take some exercise. Doing exercise helps you to avoid heart disease, but it doesn’t have to be too strenuous.

• Breastfeed for as long as possible. Doing what the breasts were intended for protects against breast cancer. In an ideal, risk-avoiding world, women would also start having babies young and have many more of them, both of which protect against breast cancer.

Source: Guardian.co.uk

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