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.
Handy advice about portion sizes
Are you confused about portion sizes? Our Diet module offers a useful video about how to measure portions.
Alcohol consumption increases risk of breast cancer
A review of modifiable risk factors for cancer, published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, reported that alcohol consumption is a major contributor to cancer among women.
Red and processed meat and risk of breast cancer
A meta-analysis showed that the relative risk for breast cancer was 6% higher in people who consumed the most unprocessed red meat than in those who consumed the least; for processed meat, the relativ…
Higher concentrations of carotenoids, found in many foods, significantly lower breast cancer risk
A study by Eliassen et al, published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that high concentrations of dietary carotenoids were associated with 18–28% statistically significantly lowe…
Cruciferous vegetables lower breast cancer risk by 15%
A meta-analysis by Liu et al, published in the journal The Breast, indicated that high intake of cruciferous vegetable was significantly associated with reduced breast cancer risk.
Ways to remove pesticides from apples
A study by Yang et al, published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, measured the effectiveness of commercial and homemade washing agents in removing surface and internalized pesticide …
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