I haven't had time to read this or these links, but I'll betcha this:
1. It's full of good information and ideas, and I will read it and learn.
2. No one -- OK, three people -- who doesn't already have cancer will pay
any attention.
3. No one who doesn't already have it believes they will get it.

"Proof" of my cynicism, at least in the broader health construct: walk down
any street; look at the millions of bulging, bouncing, ballooning butts and
bellies; and realize that the health nightmares THESE people are facing are
PROVEN, beyond ANY doubt, to cause many diseases, some often WORSE than
cancer, especially our relatively slow-growing version. (When my buddy got
diagnosed with THIS PC, he got it fixed and resumed a normal life. When they
found his NEXT PC -- pancreatic cancer -- he had to drop everything and
prepare to die very quickly.)

Every one of the hundred million obese Americans out there KNOWS it will
damage or outright ruin his/her ankles, knees, hips, entire cardiovascular
system, internal organs, career opportunities, etc., and give him/her
several kinds of cancer and something often worse: Type II diabetes. But how
many of them make any real (i.e., successsful) effort to control their
weight? Two? Two thousand? Two million? Big deal; the other 98,000,000 just
buy bigger clothes -- or Spandex -- and keep stuffing themselves and sitting
on their couches. I hang out with athletes a hundred days a year; most of
THEM eat crap, many  wonder why they're overweight, and some still smoke.
Education does them little good; it takes MOTIVATION.

We already have cancer, and are doing about all we really can or will about
our own fate. Many of us have less than a decade to even sweat little issues
like the effects of diet and exercise on cancer. But ... BUT ... many of us
have grandkids for whom diet and exercise changes can and WILL make a huge
difference. Kids largely formulate their lifelong dietary and exercise
habits before they taste beer; we got to get to them -- to their PARENTS and
school boards -- before they make their dietary and exercise choices. Heart
attacks and diabetes self-induced by obesity by the mid teens is absolutely
inexcusable, and is the parents' fault.

So given that "they" merely THINK diet and exercise may help hinder cancer,
and nobody under 50 even thinks about cancer, they're whizzing in the wind
talking about diet and exercise to the general public. I still agree that
what we in this forum can most productively do is harangue 40-something
women, and some guys, about PC screening. Mentioning that I have to wear
diapers raises listeners' eyebrows; telling them I'm quite likely to die of
PC within several years gets their damned attention! Collectively, I'd wager
that our campaigns have saved some lives.

Let's keep up the good work!

Sorry about the harangue, and about the discomfort I've caused people
fighting weight problems. OTOH, they of all people know I'm right.

I.P.