Nutrition and Cancer
      
550,000 Americans die of cancer every year. The U.S. government's National Cancer Institute estimates that 35% of cancer deaths are related to poor eating habits. Thus, you can reduce your risk of developing certain types of cancer by simply changing your eating habits.   
Pieter Bruegel, 1568   Keep in mind, no single food can prevent cancer, no single dietary slip will cause cancer. But you can reduce your cancer risk by regularly eating a balanced diet which includes a variety of vegetables and fruits and ample high-fiber grain foods. Watch your weight and cut down on total fat intake. Limit consumption of alcoholic beverages and of nitrite-cured or smoked foods.
For more detailed information about balanced diets, cancer protection, and cancer risks select one of the underlined topics below. If you are looking for tips on healthy nutrition, take our tips tour. When needing a break from consuming all this "healthy information", visit our art gallery which shows the sources of the painting details used troughout the site.
  
      
  a balanced diet

 

PROTECTION


fiber


vegetables


minerals & trace elements


vitamins
 

Guiseppe Arcimboldo, 1563

RISKS


high fat intake


cured & smoked food


cancerogens


alcohol
 

  tips tour



Responsible for content: Elke Fritz, Wilhelminen Cancer Research Institute
1st Dept. of Medicine and Oncology, Wilhelminenspital
Montleartstrasse 37, A-1171 Vienna, Austria
e-mail to fritel3@akh-wien.ac.at



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