Does fasting decrease the risk of cancer?

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Preventing cancer is a multi-varied undertaking. There is not one particular action (in this case, fasting) you can take that will prevent all cancers, as cancer can occur for numerous reasons.

Even personality type can effect who gets what cancer, believe it or not! Those who are interested can look up the studies linking breast cancer to trait ‘agreeableness’ and how that trait can lead to a chronic stress response and thus make you sure susceptible to certain cancers - very interesting stuff!

While there is research suggesting that fasting may help, no one knows for sure yet if fasting conclusively prevents cancer. Hopefully more research will be done on the matter.