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welcome to the survivorship healthy lifestyle program today we're going to go through the 10 cancer prevention recommendations from the american institute for cancer research or aicr the aicr has used the latest research to put together a blueprint for reducing cancer risk in later videos we'll dive into more detail on these recommendations but for now let's just go with a brief overview of what these recommendations are the first recommendation is to be a healthy weight the idea is to maintain your weight in a healthy range and to avoid weight gain in adult life there can certainly be some complications to this and some challenges but taking it slow and steady you can incorporate some healthy lifestyle changes into your everyday routine the second recommendation is to be physically active the goal is to get 150 minutes of physical activity over the course of the week whether that's 30 minutes a day for 5 days a week or however it fits into your schedule in this series we'll have video