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Cancer is a multifactorial disease, influenced by numerous social, health and environmental determinants that often escape our control. Still, the lifestyles we adopt before, during and after a diagnosis can be decisive. The important thing is to understand how to integrate this information into our routines in the best way possible. No pressure and no guilt, because it never depends on us alone.
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The third episode of this series, which marks the month of the fight against breast cancer, is about the role that physical exercise and nutrition can play in the treatment and prevention of the disease. Margarida Santos invites Inês Correia, exercise physiologist and researcher at the Faculty of Human Motricity, and Marta Carriço, nutritionist dedicated to the field of oncology. “Excessive consumption of ultra-processed products such as soft drinks and fast food is associated with excess body fat and excess body fat is a marked risk for oncological disease, like tobacco”, agree the experts. Are we going to another ‘Open Consultation’?