What is junk food?
Junk food is a term applied to foods and drinks that are high in kilojoules and have added fats, sugars and salt.
Establishing healthy eating habits in children will help protect them from serious illness as adults.
Did you know that a fibre-rich diet including 2 serves of fruit and 5 serves of vegetables a day can help prevent 1 in 6 bowel cancer cases? Or that eating the recommended servings of fruit and vegetables helps reduce your risk of oesophageal, lung and some mouth and throat cancers? You hold the cards to reducing your cancer risk.
Evidence now shows that many adult cancer cases are caused by a combination of the following lifestyle choices:
However simple lifestyle changes can reduce your cancer risk.
Increase fruit and vegetables intake
Reduce red meat and process meat intake
Be more active
To find out your cancer risk, take the Cancer Risk Quiz.
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