Exercising regularly and adhering to diets high in fiber, especially fruit and vegetable fiber, and low in red meat, and fat may help prevent the development of diverticular disease.
Crowe FL, Balkwill A, Cairns BJ, Appleby PN, Green J, Reeves GK, Key TJ, Beral V; Million Women Study Collaborators; Million Women Study Collaborators.
Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Unhealthy lifestyle and dietary habits, such as cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, physical inactivity, and consumption of diets high in red and processed meats and low in fruits, vegetables, fiber, and calcium, may increase an individual's risk of developing cancer.
Islami F, Goding Sauer A, Miller KD, Siegel RL, Fedewa SA, Jacobs EJ, McCullough ML, Patel AV, Ma J, Soerjomataram I, Flanders WD, Brawley OW, Gapstur SM, Jemal A.
Strategic Director, Cancer Surveillance Research, Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Epidemiologist, Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Strategic Director, Surveillance Information, Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Strategic Director, Risk Factors and Screening Surveillance, Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Strategic Director, Pharmacoepidemiology, Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Strategic Director, Nutritional Epidemiology, Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Strategic Director, Cancer Prevention Study-3, Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Strategic Director, Cancer Interventions Surveillance, Surveillance and Health Services Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Scientist, Section of Cancer Surveillance, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France. Professor, Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Chief Medical and Science Officer, Executive Vice President, Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Vice President, Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA. Vice President, Surveillance and Health Services Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA.
Adoption of healthy lifestyle habits, such as consuming of diets low in meat and high in fiber, exercising regularly, maintenance of healthy weight, and avoidance of cigarette smoking, may help protect individuals from diverticulitis.
Liu PH, Cao Y, Keeley BR, Tam I, Wu K, Strate LL, Giovannucci EL, Chan AT.
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Division of Public Health Sciences, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA. Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Department of Human Nutrition, Edgar Diabetes and Research Centre, and Riddet Institute, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Department of Nutrition for Health and Development, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Song M, Wu K, Meyerhardt JA, Ogino S, Wang M, Fuchs CS, Giovannucci EL, Chan AT.
Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston. Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. Department of Nutrition, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Division of MPE Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut. Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut. Department of Medical Oncology, Smilow Cancer Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut. Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Benisi-Kohansal S, Saneei P, Salehi-Marzijarani M, Larijani B, Esmaillzadeh A.
Food Security Research Center, Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutrition and Food Science, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Center and. Obesity and Eating Habits Research Center, Endocrinology and Metabolism Molecular Cellular Sciences Institute, and esmaillzadeh@hlth.mui.ac.ir. Department of Community Nutrition, School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, 516A Parran Hall, 130 DeSoto Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. fm@cs.cmu.edu
Bahonar A, Saadatnia M1, Khorvash F, Maracy M, Khosravi A.
Isfahan Neurosciences Research Center, Alzahra Hospital, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. Hypertension Research Center, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
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