World Cancer Day: Half don't know about link between diet and cancer

Around half of Britons don't recognise the importance of diet in protecting against cancer, demonstrating that many of the myths about the disease are still widely believed.The YouGov poll commissioned by World Cancer Research Fund for World Cancer Day found that 49 per cent do not know that diet affects people's risk of getting cancer. Other results show that a high proportion of people do not know about the links between cancer and body weight (59 per cent), processed meat (62 per cent) and physical activity (66 per cent).