According to the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research, between 30 and 50% of all cancers are preventable by making healthy lifestyle choices, avoiding occupational carcinogens and environmental pollution, and treating some types of long-term infections...
While this research may someday lead to medical treatments that will help treat and perhaps help prevent deaths from aggressive colon cancers it also reinforces what we already know can help reduce the risk of developing and dying from colon cancers, which are the #1 cancer killer of non-smoking Americans...
Approximately one-third of the most common types of cancer in the U.S. would never occur if Americans ate more healthfully, moved more, and managed their weight better. If we add in not smoking and avoiding sun damage, then nearly half of all cancers in the US could be prevented...
Growing research is helping to explain why following a healthy diet, exercising regularly, and reducing excess body fat and keeping it off will also help reduce the risk of developing numerous types of cancer...
Regularly choosing foods that are associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer as part of an overall healthful and well-balanced diet may provide some benefit...
This month, we will examine the scientific evidence linking high-protein diets (especially from animal sources) with a wide variety of known and suspected adverse metabolic effects that almost certainly contribute to adverse effects on health and longevity...
Not enough sleep is linked with obesity, physical inactivity, mistakes at work, car crashes, and 10 chronic health conditions: heart attack, coronary heart disease, stroke, asthma, COPD, cancer, arthritis, depression, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes.
We're all familiar with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans' advice to reduce the amount of added sugars in our eating patterns. Today I want to talk about why that recommendation exists...
Omega-3 fatty acids can be a big part of your healthful aging diet because this type of fat helps decrease risk of cardiovascular disease, reduce internal inflammation that is an important component of type 2 diabetes, arthritis, and some types of cancer, and also plays a key role in maintaining active, healthy brain function.
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Nutrition for Cancer Prevention
According to the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research, between 30 and 50% of all cancers are preventable by making healthy lifestyle choices, avoiding occupational carcinogens and environmental pollution, and treating some types of long-term infections...
High-Fat Diet Promotes Deadly Colon Cancer
While this research may someday lead to medical treatments that will help treat and perhaps help prevent deaths from aggressive colon cancers it also reinforces what we already know can help reduce the risk of developing and dying from colon cancers, which are the #1 cancer killer of non-smoking Americans...
Grains: Dietary Friend or Foe?
10 Ways to Prevent Cancer: Recommendations from the American Institute for Cancer Research
Approximately one-third of the most common types of cancer in the U.S. would never occur if Americans ate more healthfully, moved more, and managed their weight better. If we add in not smoking and avoiding sun damage, then nearly half of all cancers in the US could be prevented...
How Excessive Energy Promotes Cancer
Growing research is helping to explain why following a healthy diet, exercising regularly, and reducing excess body fat and keeping it off will also help reduce the risk of developing numerous types of cancer...
Danger or Delight? The Latest Take on Soy Foods
What Can Red Fruits and Vegetables Do For You?
Green Tea: A Good Source of Healthful Antioxidants
Drinking green tea is associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer where oxidative stress plays an important role...
MyPlate 4-Step Plan for the Holidays
Nutrition for Prostate Cancer Prevention
Regularly choosing foods that are associated with a decreased risk of prostate cancer as part of an overall healthful and well-balanced diet may provide some benefit...
Are High-Protein Diets Healthier?
This month, we will examine the scientific evidence linking high-protein diets (especially from animal sources) with a wide variety of known and suspected adverse metabolic effects that almost certainly contribute to adverse effects on health and longevity...
The ABC's of 5-9 per Day
Ways to Eat to Improve Your Sleep
Not enough sleep is linked with obesity, physical inactivity, mistakes at work, car crashes, and 10 chronic health conditions: heart attack, coronary heart disease, stroke, asthma, COPD, cancer, arthritis, depression, chronic kidney disease, and diabetes.
Closing the Fiber Gap
Only 1 in 20 Americans consumes enough fiber...
Added Sugars and Your Health
We're all familiar with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans' advice to reduce the amount of added sugars in our eating patterns. Today I want to talk about why that recommendation exists...
Successful Weight Management with Plants
Research suggests that dropping meat from your eating pattern may be useful when it comes to successfully managing your weight...
Aging Well: Spotlight on Omega-3s
Omega-3 fatty acids can be a big part of your healthful aging diet because this type of fat helps decrease risk of cardiovascular disease, reduce internal inflammation that is an important component of type 2 diabetes, arthritis, and some types of cancer, and also plays a key role in maintaining active, healthy brain function.
Cancer and Eating Pattern Factsheet
Diet and cancer: is there a link?
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