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Fatty foods

A fat saturated meal of steak and chips.

A fat saturated meal of steak and chips. Having a diet high in fat increases your risk of getting cancer. This is because some chemicals attach to fat molecules, and they tend to stay in your body longer or remain in cells with the fat as deposits.

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