Nutrition and Food Chemistry

Nutrition and Cancer

There is a very broad area of research into the role of food in the cancer cycle. When research continues, diet plays a major role in cancer, it will become clearer. The American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund reported that 30-40% of all cancers can be avoided by healthy diets, physical activity, and correct body weight maintenance. For some particular cancers it is likely to be higher than this. Many nutritional and cancer study are reductionist; that is, a single food or nutrient was examined in relation to its effect on tumour formation / regression or some other endpoint of cancer.