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.
Organic diet significantly reduces levels of the herbicide glyphosate (RoundUp) in the human body
Diet is a primary source of human ingestion of glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, which is the most widely used herbicide in the world.
Higher dairy milk consumption associated with greater risk of breast cancer
A study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that drinking as little as one cup of dairy milk per day may increase the rate of breast cancer up to 50%.
Four day “fasting mimicking” diet around the time of chemotherapy improved results in breast cancer patients
In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers found that women with Her2 negative, stage 2/3 breast cancer, had improved outcomes from chemotherapy when they went on a four-day, low-calor…
BPA and Phthalate exposure from food packaging
A study by Rudel et al, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found that BPA and DEHP (phthalate) exposures were substantially reduced when participants’ diets were restricted …
Organic diet causes dramatic decrease in pesticides in children’s urine
A study by Lu et al, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, found a dramatic and immediate decrease in pesticides in children’s urine when they switched to an organic diet.
The American Cancer Society’s lifestyle recommendations
The American Cancer Society (ACS) issued their updated guidelines for lifestyle behaviors, particularly in the areas of diet and fitness.
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