Diet and cancer prevention: What we know
The European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) is designed to investigate the relationship between diet and cancer. It’s a multicenter study of more than 500,000 adults in 23 centers from 10 European countries.
Here’s what we now know.
- Eating more fruit lowers the risk of lung cancer but probably not prostate or breast cancer.
- Eating veggies (mainly onion and garlic) probably reduces the risk of the intestinal stomach cancer but probably is not associated with lung, prostate, or breast cancer.
- Eating red and processed meat increases the risk of colorectal cancer and with non-cardia stomach cancer in those infected by Helicobacter pylori.
- Eating more fish reduces the risk of colorectal cancer.
- High alcohol intake increases the risk of breast cancer.
More associations and explanations of findings from EPIC can be found here.
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