Nutrition and Food Chemistry

Nutrition and Cancer

The field of investigation of the role of nutrition in the cancer procedure is very broad. It is becoming clearer as research stays that nutrition plays a major role in cancer. It has been estimated by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund that 30–40 per cent of all cancers can be prohibited by appropriate diets, physical activity, and conservation of appropriate body weight. It is likely to be higher than this for certain individual cancers. Most of the research on nutrition and cancer has been reductionist; that is, a particular food or a nutrient has been studied in relative to its impact on tumor formation/regression or some additional end point of cancer at a particular site in the body. These studies are very helpful in sighted the details of the mechanisms of disease. However, they do not help give an overall picture of how to prevent cancer on a nutritional level. Even less, they tell little of how to eat when a person already has a cancer and would like to eat a diet that is favorable to their recovery.