Here: - Stop smoking, - keep active and at a healthy weight range - reduce red meat consumption (and barbecued/charred food) - reduce your alcohol intake - wear sunscreen.

Boom - you've just covered most of the risks that you can control.

And don't eat antioxidants... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10983214

People are downvoting you... why? You even provided a citation.

This is one of the more fascinating recent discoveries about diet, that anti-oxidants can actually CAUSE cancer instead of prevent as previously assumed.

Obviously the jury is still out, but we had thought the jury was not out until recently.

It's well known that cancer cells die under oxidative metabolic pressures, and also that antioxidants can help prevent free radical caused DNA damage (which might lead to cancer). So antioxidants can both help and cause damage, depending on the context, the problem is finding the balance.

Also, don't live near a major highway or in smoggy city.

There are way more. For example avoid most hair care and beauty products. They often are full of barely tested chemicals with unknown effects.

There's a reason chemophobia is a thing - most of the chemicals in household products are not tested, and many of them are suspected carcinogens.

Obviously it's not necessary to go all the way to chemophobia, but a little caution would not hurt.

plus eat a lot of vegetables

My guess is that we all have predispositions to developing certain types of cancer....consider the medical histories of your grandparents, parents, and siblings for (approximate) guidance...

Your grandparents and parents provide a good real-world "preview" of the possibility(s) that genetic make-up might predispose one to certain infirmities, illnesses, cancers...

Maybe you should be on guard against those evidenced, to the extent possible...after all, you're very much like them...?

Did they live a life that eventually led to any medical conditions they experienced...?

Should you avoid the life choices that they made...?

Pretty much everyone agrees on the basics: avoid white flour, sugar and processed foods. Get enough sleep, get sunlight and exercise.

Most importantly - don't overeat and try to stick with eating within 6-8 hours a day, i.e. one or two meals only, no snacking, no liquid foods (soda, juices).

While I'm a big fan of intermittent fasting myself, I don't think the research is anywhere near conclusive enough to say it's more important than basic advice like sleeping, exercising, and avoiding processed foods.

Historical evidence isn't enough?

Correct, historical evidence isn't enough. "Recorded history" has seen many revisions and is abundant with confounding factors.

It's still better than unreliable science. We're not adapted to eat breakfast; we're better adapted to skip it.

No snacking? Not long ago the advice was to munch on healthy things throughout the day.

The advice of yesterday is wrong today -- the way it seems to go with most food/health/lifestyle advice. For me, I live the way I want to live, and eat what I like to eat. If it shortens my life by a few years, so be it.

Same wrong advices were about cholesterol and saturated fat.

Yeah, and tomorrow your advice will be back to being wrong.

No, it won't be as my advice has thousands of years of backing. Historical and biological evidence, in this case, worth more than corrupt nutritional science. People eat breakfast thanks to the commercial interest of Kellogg's - you can do your own research about "the most important meal of the day"!

Current research indicates that people who don't eat breakfast are more likely to have health problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast#Effect_on_health

I'm also reasonably sure that the hearty English breakfast is older than Kellog's cornflakes. As is the Japanese breakfast with grilled fish and rice and the traditional breakfasts of countless other cultures.

"Current research" there is not necessarily strong nor convincing either way, from the linked wikipedia article:

Reinagel also suggests that link between skipping breakfast and increased weight may be mostly behavioral – compensating with snacks and eating more later—and therefore not inevitable

I was referring to the expressions "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day". Also, different activities are adapted to different things. Even without one ethnicity, there might be differences (for example, slaves vs warriors). I subscribed to the Warrior Diet [0]. According to the author Ori Hofmekler, slaves were eating all day long while warriors were only feasting at night.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrior_diet

my ancestors were eating breakfast long before that company was founded. you might be right, but the way you present your side and your opinions (no hard facts so far)... you could work a bit on that part ;)

Different ethnicities are adapted to different things. For example, we eat differently than the Inuits. It takes several generations to do an adaptation to a new diet.

The burden of proof is on you, who is claiming an additional statement. I'm not going to do any research on anything to prove your point.