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.

Articles & Research

Diet and Exercise Intervention Found to Improve Response to Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer Patients

A diet and exercise intervention was found to improve response to chemotherapy in breast cancer patients. For more on this study, see here.

Articles & Research

Artificially Sweetened Drinks Associated With Depression

In a study published in JAMA Network Open, researchers found that greater Ultraprocessed Foods (UPF) intake, particularly artificial sweeteners and artificially sweetened beverages, is associated with…

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Sugary Drinks Tied To Higher Liver Cancer Risk In Women

Regularly drinking sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with a significantly increased incidence of liver cancer and death from chronic liver disease, according to a prospective cohort study invol…

Audio

Dr. Greger on fasting, diet, and cancer

In this interesting 13 minute podcast, Dr. Michael Greger discusses some of the complex relationships between diet, fasting, and cancer.

Articles & Research

Article Summarizing the Relationship Between Sugar and Cancer

From the New York Times, July 10, 2023, by Connie Chang: During the eight years Stacy Shawhan has worked as an oncology dietitian, she has heard many questions from her cancer patients about how their…

Articles & Research

Soy Foods and Cancer

From the New York Times, August 30, 2023: One historical worry about soy has been that its estrogen-like isoflavones might promote breast cancer, but many studies have shown that women who eat higher …

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