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The study’s authors say airport scanner radiation is minimal compared to the levels of background radiation we’re exposed to daily. Going through one airport body scan delivers as much radiation as six to nine minutes of living, or one or two minutes of flying in an airplane. So what’s the cancer risk of the scans? [...]

Eating fruits and veggies only slightly cuts cancer risk

Despite the widely held belief—promoted by the World Health Organization and U.S. public health organizations for two decades—that eating more fruit and veggies can diminish cancer risk, a large scale study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute finds that getting a daily five servings of apples, tomatoes and leafy greens has a [...]