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.
Cookbook for cancer survivors
Cook for Your Life: Delicious, Nourishing Recipes for Before, During, and After Cancer Treatment by Ann Ogden Gaffney contains recipes for all stages of cancer treatment and recovery, from a two-time…
Dr. Greger on the relationship between dietary cholesterol and cancer
For many cancers, there is a dose-response relationship between dietary cholesterol from animal fat and cancer–meaning that the higher the intake of cholesterol, the greater the risk of many can…
Incidence of early onset cancers has increased dramatically
The incidence of early onset cancers, those diagnosed before age 50, including cancers of the breast, colon, esophagus, kidney, liver and pancreas, has “dramatically increased” over the past few d…
Ultraprocessed foods lead to greater colorectal cancer risk and death from cardiovascular disease
Regular consumption of ultra-processed foods was associated with an increased risk of colorectal cancer, all-cause mortality, and cardiovascular mortality, according to findings from two studies publi…
Food packaging leaks chemicals that impact gut microbiome
In an article published on July 16, 2022, in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, Naifan Hu and co-authors from Ningxia Medical University, Yinchuan, China, investigated the effects of food contac…
Chemicals migrate from PET bottles into drinks
In a study published in the journal Food Chemistry, bottles made of the plastic PET were shown to leach harmful chemicals into their contents. See here for more information.
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