{"id":1064,"date":"2009-02-18T20:36:45","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T20:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2015-10-17T08:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T06:41:40","slug":"many-unaware-of-link-between-poor-diet-and-cancer-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/morten.me\/?p=1064","title":{"rendered":"Many unaware of link between poor diet and cancer in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A survey commissioned by the World Cancer Research Fund questioned 1,986 UK adults in January about their knowledge of lifestyle risk factors for the disease. The results reveal a worrying lack of awareness, with just 59% of people recognising the link between diet and cancer, despite strong evidence of the benefits of a diet high in fruit and vegetables, with low levels of alcohol, salt and high-calorie foods. The survey also found that only 56% of people knew that being overweight increases a person&#8217;s risk of cancer, while just 42% were aware that a lack of exercise increases the risk of the disease.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/info.cancerresearchuk.org\/news\/archive\/newsarchive\/2009\/february\/19031544\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey commissioned by the World Cancer Research Fund questioned 1,986 UK adults in January about their knowledge of lifestyle risk factors for the disease. The results reveal a worrying lack of awareness, with just 59% of people recognising the link between diet and cancer, despite strong evidence of the benefits of a diet high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4618,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/4618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/morten.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}