Tag: cancer
How to Prep for Your Colonoscopy While Eating Plant-Based
For the past several decades, mortality rates for colorectal cancer have been on the decline, thanks in part to an increase in…

8+ Striking Nutrition Studies Every Medical Student Should Read
In the United States, dietary factors are the most important risk factors for disease, yet medical schools fail to provide adequate nutrition…

I Beat Melanoma, Then I Went Plant-Based to Help Stay Cancer-Free
I am a cancer survivor. I was cured of melanoma about five years before adopting a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) diet. Having…

This Gynecologist Is Making the WFPB Connection for Women
Dr. Padma Garvey, a gynecologist working in New York’s Hudson Valley (about 75 miles outside of New York City), has come to…

A WFPB Diet Helped Send My Prostate Cancer Into Remission
In September 2013, six months shy of my 50th birthday, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Two urologists, including a surgeon from…

What’s the Best Way to Lower Levels of IGF-1, the Cancer-Promoting Growth Hormone?
In the NutritionFacts.org video below, Dr. Michael Greger explores the link between obesity and the cancer-causing agent IGF-1* (insulin-like growth factor) produced…

Meals That Heal: My Journey from Cancer Patient to Plant-Based Chef and Teacher
My early childhood memories include vivid memories of food: the smell and sizzle of bologna on a hot skillet, the oozy cheesiness…

World Health Organization Says Processed and Red Meats Can Cause Cancer
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a report today that places processed meat in the highest of five possible classifications of cancer-causing…

When the Love of My Life Was Given One Month to Live, a WFPB Diet Gave Us More Time
In 2011, the course of my life changed forever. My boyfriend Tom and I were creating music for films, had a band,…

Can We Eat to Starve Cancer? Antiangiogenesis Foods 101
In this TED talk, Dr. William Li, President of the Angiogenesis Foundation, discusses a new way to think about treating cancer and…

New Study: Typical American Diet and Dairy Products Raise Prostate Cancer Death Risk
A new study found that prostate cancer patients who ate a Western diet were 2.5 times more likely to die from the…

Research Shows That a Healthy Diet Will Slow or Stop Most Cancers
More than 30 years ago, I performed and published the first study on the dietary treatment of breast cancer. Although it was…
