Week Three: Cancer Risk Reduction

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The risk of many cancers can be reduced by a healthy lifestyle and environment.
  • Being Smokefree
  • Eating a diet high in fruit and vegetables and low in saturated fat and sugar
  • Being a healthy weight
  • Being regularly physically active
  • Following lower risk guidelines if you drink alcohol
  • Being SunSmart - avoiding over-exposure to ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from the sun and sun beds
  • Undertaking recommended screening for different cancers.



Currently, the New Zealand Cancer society is encouraging actions to be out in a place in order to reduce the risks of cancer, 
  • Making your organisation or event Smoke-free is great for your staff, customers, event attendees and for your business. These resources use the experience of other organisations and make it easy for your organisation or event to become Smoke-free

  • Encouraging cafe/ restaurant/ bar areas to become a smoke-free environment
  • Make cigarettes less available in shops. Tobacco is more available in New Zealand communities than bread and milk even though it kills half of the people that use it regularly. Research shows that when tobacco is more available, more children start smoking and fewer people quit



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