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.
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…
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.
Probiotic use in patients on immunotherapy led to worse outcomes
In a study published in Science, researchers found that while higher dietary fiber was associated with significantly improved progression-free survival in 128 patients on immunotherapy, the most prono…
No amount of alcohol is safe for cancer
Excerpted from the New York Times, January 13, 2023 Why is alcohol so harmful? Scientists think that the main way alcohol causes health problems is by damaging DNA.
Dairy and Cancer: Milking the Evidence
Anticancer’s very own Registered Dietitians Crystal Pace and Taylor Scialo teamed up with our Advisory Board member Donald Abrams to research the data on the connection between dairy and cancer.
Mindfulness program helps adherence to DASH diet designed to lower high blood pressure
A study published in JAMA Network Open found that a mindfulness program adapted to improving health behaviors to lower blood pressure improved hunger/fullness awareness and adherence to the DASH diet…
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