Eat and drink healthily
Limit alcohol and maintain a healthy diet to reduce your risk.
Alcohol is a proven cause of many types of cancer including mouth and breast cancer. Smoking and drinking together increases your risk even more. Limiting the amount you drink to recommended levels can help you to reduce your risk of cancer.
What you eat can also affect your risk of cancer, and getting a healthy, balanced diet can help you to reduce your risk. Aim for a diet high in fibre, fruit and vegetables and low in fat, red meat and processed meat.
Ten Top Tips
Ten Top Tips is a programme of weight loss tips to help you take in fewer calories through food and burn more calories through activity. The tips are based on scientific evidence and designed to fit into your daily routine.
Find out more
The Alcohol section of our Healthy Living site will tell you more about the risks of drinking to much and how to cut down.
In the Diet and healthy eating section, you can read about:
- how different nutrients and types of food affect your risk of cancer.
- the truth behind some common food controversies
- the largest ever study on diet and cancer, funded by Cancer Research UK
- the evidence linking diet and cancer
- tips for getting your five portions of fruit and vegetables a day
- how your eating habits affect your health
- how to make sense of food labels
- how to eat healthily on a budget
- tips for parents to encourage your children to eat healthily.
More support
Down your drink - this website offers an online six week course which is proven to help people reduce the amount they drink.
Alcohol support helplines - you may find the following numbers useful.
- Drinkline - 0800 917 8282, 9am to11pm on weekdays – confidential information, support and advice from the national alcohol helpline
- Alcoholics Anonymous - 0845 769 7555, 24 hours a day – confidential helpline for people worried about drinking too much
Department of Health - information about the government five a day campaign including details of what makes up one portion of fruit or vegetables.
Eat well, be well - website from the Food Standards Agency with information about healthy eating, food labelling and special needs at different times in your life.
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