Enjoy Your Food! Improve Your Diet…Reduce Your Risk

This Diet Toolkit supports the information and guidance you receive in the Diet Module of the Anticancer Lifestyle Program. The resources on this page will give you tools you can use to make informed (and delicious!) food choices.

Articles & Research

Food additive emulsifiers associated with higher breast and prostate cancer risk

In a large prospective study published on PLOS Medicine, researchers observed associations between higher intakes of carrageenans and mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids with overall, breast and pro…

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Effect of diet and exercise on women treated with chemotherapy before surgery

In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, patients on a diet and exercise regimen after chemotherapy but before surgery, were found to have dramatically higher complete response when t…

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Mindfulness training helped adherence to DASH diet

In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that a mindfulness program adapted to improving health behaviors to lower blood pressure improved interoceptive awareness (ie, being more a…

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Greater Survival After Breast Cancer in Physically Active Women With High Vegetable-Fruit Intake Regardless of Obesity

In a study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers found that the combination of consuming five or more daily servings of vegetables-fruits, and accumulating 540+ metabolic equivale…

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Mediterranean diet associated with lower risk of Gleason score progression in men with prostate cancer

In a study published in Cancer, adherence to a Mediterranean diet was associated with a lower risk of Gleason score progression in men on active surveillance, and this is consistent with prior reports…

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Breast cancer survivors who drink 3 or more sugar-sweetened beverages per day had higher mortality

In a study published in Cancer, individuals with a breast cancer diagnosis who drank 3 or more sugar-sweetened beverages per day had a 34% increased risk of breast cancer and all-cause mortality.

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