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.
Healthy eating patterns reduce risk of mortality
A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine confirmed that healthy eating patterns are linked to lower risk of total and cause-specific mortality.
Sewage sludge used in conventional farming contains microplastics and PFAS chemicals
This article by the BBC has fascinating information about how PFAS chemicals from sewage sludge gets into soil via microplastics, and is absorbed into root crops.
Health Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet
Excerpted from an article in the New York Times on January 6, 2023: The Seven Countries Study, as it later became known, famously found associations between saturated fats, cholesterol levels and cor…
Harvard School of Public Health: Fruits and vegetables lower cancer risk
A publication from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health urges the consumption of fruits and vegetables to lower the risk of chronic illness in general, including cancer: Cancer Numerous early s…
Expert Q&A 12/6/2022: Crystal Pace, Registered Dietitian and Health Coach
Can fasting help with weight loss? Do we really have to stay away from sugar/carbs? How do you get enough protein on a plant-based diet? Do I really need to eat only organic? Are Keto diets really hea…
Boys who are overweight still at higher cancer risk as adults, even with weight loss
Excess weight in childhood appears to boost the risk of obesity-related cancers for men later in life, even if they shed the extra pounds by adulthood, a researcher reported here.
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