Filed under: Fitness, Food and Nutrition, Healthy Habits
It's important for everyone to have an active, healthy lifestyle. For those who have beat cancer, it's possibly even more important. More than 10 million Americans have survived the disease -- but the impact it had on their health puts them at higher risk for conditions such as heart disease, osteoporosis, diabetes, and a reduced quality of life... not to mention the risk of cancer recurrence.
Exercise, eating healthfully, and not smoking can help counteract that increased risk. But, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS),
too few cancer survivors adopt a healthier lifestyle. Though approximately 75% of
cancer survivors do stop smoking, the ACS isn't seeing as good of an improvement with healthy eating and physical activity.
The ACS recommends a minimum of 30 minutes of exercise a day (at least five days a week) and a diet that includes at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Less than 48% of survivors are meeting the exercise requirements and less than 20% are eating the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables.
译文:
极少癌症幸存者改变生活习惯
本文在该目录下：健身，食物与营养，健康习惯
对于每个人来说，拥有积极、健康的生活方式都是非常重要的。而对于那些战胜癌症的人来说，可能就更为重要了。超过1千万美国人在患上该病后幸存下来——但对他们健康的影响，令他们处于高度的危险之中，例如心脏病、骨质疏松症、糖尿病和生活质量的降低……更不要提癌症复发的危险了。
锻炼、健康的饮食、禁烟均可帮助这些危险的增加。但根据美国癌症协会（ACS），太少癌症幸存者采用这种健康的生活方式。虽然大约75%的癌症幸存者停止了吸烟，但以ACS看来，它带来的好处比不上改进健康饮食和体育锻炼。
ACS推荐每天至少进行30分钟的锻炼（起码每周五天），每天包括至少五份水果和蔬菜的健康餐。少于48%幸存者达到锻炼的要求和少于20%能进食推荐份量的水果和蔬菜。