Less Booze Not More Veg Is Key To Cut Cancer Risk

More uselessness of more veggies.

People should be warned that cancer is linked to obesity and alcohol, rather than urged to eat more fruit and vegetables to protect against the disease.

A review, published yesterday in the British Journal of Cancer, which looks at decade of evidence on the links between fruit and vegetables and the development of cancer, concludes that the evidence is still not convincing.

The only diet-related factors that definitely affect cancer risk are obesity and alcohol. But tobacco is still the single biggest cause of cancer.

Do what works.

Less alcohol, fewer Calories, no smoking.

And if you want to get there eating more vegetables, so be it.

But the vegs will not protect you in the absence of the absence of the others.