How to low Your Cancer Risk.

While there are certain foods that can potentially cause cancer as well as foods that you should avoid if cancer runs in your family, it now turns out that eating a diet that's low in meat or a diet that's totally meat-free can lower the risk of cancer, according to a recent study that was published in the BMC Medicine journal.

Researchers from the University of Oxford took a look at data that was collected from 2006 to 2010 by the UK Biobank. The information came from over 472,000 adults who were between the ages of 40 and 70 years old at the time.

While noting how many participants ate meat and fish, the researchers compared that with instances of cancer while also taking various other health and lifestyle factors into consideration. They found that eating meat five times a week or less frequently resulted in a lower risk of cancer.