The recommendations themselves were rather straightforward: stay lean throughout adult life, limit foods and drinks that promote weight gain, be physically active, limit red meat consumption, avoid processed meat, eat non-starchy vegetables and fruit, limit alcohol consumption, limit salt intake, and breastfeed children.
Straightforward they may have been but, if acted on, these recommendations could make a dramatic difference to cancer globally.
Two of its recommendations for governments and businesses:
→Require widespread dedicated walking and cycling facilities throughout built and external environments
→Use price and other incentives to encourage healthy eating and active commuting, and to discourage motorized transport
More details:
Modern cities and other physical environments have been designed to facilitate motorized travel. The effect has been to impede walking and cycling....More dedicated space therefore needs to be made available for pedestrians and cyclists. This will involve wider pavements (sidewalks) and more cycle paths. As well as stricter enforcement of speed limits especially within cities, more use needs to be made of traffic management systems that encourage pedestrians and cyclists, and also of restrictions on the use of private motorized transport within cities, such as congestion charges.
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