The types of cancer that are influenced by diet in terms of lowering risk include colon; breast; lung; prostate; cervical and ovarian cancers. Watch disease prevention specialist William Li, MD, explain how diet may lower the risk of some cancers.
Well cancer is not one disease, cancer are literally hundreds of disease but they're been at least 30 or more cancers that have been found to be lowered in terms of risk by diet and that could be food or beverage. So, some of the cancers that have actually been influenced by food in terms of lowering risk based on what you eat or drink include the biggies, colon cancer, breast cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, but also some of the other important cancers like cervical cancer and ovarian cancer, they've all been shown to be influenced by what we eat.
My research is actually taking a look at what actually you should add to your diet, not what you should take away, there's a lot of information out there, about things that are bad for you and now we're trying the tables on its head by asking what's good for you and what should you add.
William Li, MD, is President, Medical Director, and Co-founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation. He has been actively involved in angiogenesis research and development for 22 years. Li trained with Judah Folkman, a pioneer of the field.
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