Learn 8ight Healthy Behaviors to Stay Healthy and Prevent Cancer

Improve your health and lower your risk of many cancers for the lives you touch!

The power of healthy living is hard to overestimate.

A large percentage of cancers and many other chronic diseases can be prevented by things like eating a healthy diet, getting regular exercise, keeping weight in check, and getting important screening tests. The best thing? These are things under your control. Take some simple steps to improve your health, and help your family do the same.

8ightWays to Better Health and a Lower Risk of Cancer for Early Adults

You’re in your early adult years, so it can seem a little strange to think about the importance of taking steps to improve your health. That’s something your parents need to worry about. Not you.
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8ightWays to Prevent Colon Cancer

Colon cancer doesn’t get the same attention as some higher-profile cancers, but it should. It’s the third most common cancer in the United States – with around 150,000 people diagnosed each year. And a growing number of these cancers are being found in younger adults under the age of 50.
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8ightWays to Prevent Breast Cancer

Breast cancer. Just reading those words can make many women worry. And that’s natural. Nearly everyone knows someone touched by the disease.
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8ightWays to a Healthier Weight

When it comes to health, little matters more than weight. Maintaining a healthy weight can lower the risk of 13 different cancers – plus stroke, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, and many other chronic conditions.
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8ightWays to Stay Healthy Beyond Cancer

Cancer Is Hard. No two ways about it. Diagnosis and treatment can be frightening and exhausting, and even after you’ve made it past those hurdles, you need to adjust to life as you move beyond cancer.
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8ightWays to Stay Healthy and Prevent Cancer

Eight healthy behaviors can go a long way toward improving your health and lowering your risk of many cancers – as well as heart disease, stroke, diabetes and osteoporosis. And even small changes can have a big impact.
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Calculate Your Disease Risk

The Your Disease Risk assessment helps identify some health risks that are unique to you and gives tips on prevention you can start today. From breast cancer to osteoporosis, prostate cancer to diabetes, the tool gives women and men insights into their health. With specific information on 12 cancers and 6 chronic illnesses, developed by world-renowned experts, the Your Disease Risk tool makes finding reliable, helpful information easy.

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