Not long ago, the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery of Shenzhen University General Hospital received a 22-year-old girl Xiao Li, according to reports, she often stayed up late, almost never cooked, supper also often ordered barbecue, and later found that the stomach had a "bulge", a check, found that she from carrying hepatitis B virus rapidly developed into huge liver cancer. Fortunately, the discovery was timely, and the recovery was good after surgical removal of the tumor.
The mainland is a big country with liver disease, there are about 80 million people infected with hepatitis B virus, and more than 80% of liver cancer is associated with chronic hepatitis B virus infection.
According to the latest data from the National Cancer Center, the incidence of liver cancer in mainland China ranks 5th, and the mortality rate ranks 2nd. Therefore, here is a reminder to friends, we must pay attention to their own health, especially hepatitis B carriers, do not be careless.
It takes about 5 to 10 years to develop liver cancer from hepatitis B, and a study from Peking University found that maintaining a good lifestyle can help reduce the incidence of liver cancer.
Based on the China Prospective Cohort for Chronic Diseases (CKB) database, the Peking University research team included a total of 492,460 participants with an average follow-up time of 10 years, and investigated the relationship between five healthy lifestyles and liver cancer risk.
- non-smoking (never or occasionally);
- non-drinking (never drinking, abstaining from alcohol, or occasionally drinking);
- Active physical activity (one quarter of the most active physical activity levels by sex);
- Healthy diet (participants ate vegetables daily and fruits ≥ 4 days a week);
- Appropriate waist-to-hip ratio (waist/hips: 0.90 for men <, 0.85 for women <).
Participants with 4 or 5 healthy lifestyles had a 43% lower risk of developing liver cancer compared to participants with only 0 or 1 healthy lifestyle.
Specifically, non-smoking and non-drinking were associated with a 37% reduction in liver cancer risk; non-smoking, non-drinking, active physical activity, and an appropriate waist-to-hip ratio were associated with a 56 percent reduction in liver cancer risk; and a combination of four factors: non-smoking, non-drinking, healthy diet, and appropriate waist-to-hip ratio was associated with a 52 percent reduction in liver cancer risk.
According to the researchers, in hepatitis B surface antigen-positive patients, a high-risk group of liver cancer, the role of healthy lifestyle is more significant.
If you want to prevent liver cancer, I hope that you will follow the above 5 healthy lifestyles, especially pay attention to maintaining a proper waist-to-hip ratio.
Maintain a proper waist-to-hip ratio
Studies have shown that the less visceral fat there is, the lower the risk of cancer. Everyone should accept the concept of "thin waist", the smaller the waist circumference, the longer the life span. If the waist circumference of men ≥ 90 cm and the waist circumference of women ≥ 85 cm, it is abdominal obesity.
The appropriate waist-to-hip ratio highlights the level of visceral fat in a person, in general, the male waist-to-hip ratio remains less than 0.9, and the female waist-to-hip ratio is less than 0.85, which belongs to the healthy and normal waist-to-hip ratio level.
Waist-to-hip ratio: Divide the waist circumference (cm) by the hip circumference (cm) to obtain the waist-to-hip ratio.
If it exceeds the standard, it indicates that fat accumulates in the abdomen, and the abdominal fat accumulation type is obese, which is very harmful, and will bring adverse consequences such as fatty liver, cholecystitis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc., and will also increase the incidence of many malignant tumors.
If the waist-to-hip ratio exceeds the standard, you need to reduce the waist circumference. But we have no way to achieve local weight loss, only specifically to reduce the stomach of this place, or pay attention to the appropriate exercise of the whole body and cooperate with a scientific diet.
Welcome to learn nutrition and health knowledge with Professor Yu Kang of the Department of Nutrition of Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and eat healthy and eat beautiful! Pay attention to the headline number of "eat three meals a day"
Yu Kang
Professor and Director of the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Peking Union Medical College Hospital
Member of the Nutrition Standards Committee of the National Health Commission
Director of the Chinese Nutrition Society