10-17-12: The Link Between Diet and Cancer

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and there are a lot of people who are concerned about the link between diet and breast cancer. Are there foods that increase your risk, or even cause cancer? Are there things we stock-up on when we’re in the grocery store or at the farmer’s market that will help us ward-off cancerous cells? Are there particular behaviors that contribute to cancer?

To answer these questions, as always, we turn to our resident Nutrition Diva, Monica Reinagel. She’s a licensed nutritionist from Baltimore and the creator of the Nutrition Diva podcast. Her latest book is called Nutrition Diva’s Secrets for a Healthy Diet.   



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I found this an interesting piece, however I was hoping to hear about soy products, as it is a popular food touted for healthy benefits and disease connections.

pros and cons of soy

Thanks for your question. Sorry we didn't have time to get into this more fully in the segment but I did a special two-part series on the pros and cons of soy for the Nutrition Diva podcast. You can read or listen to them here: http://nutritiondiva.quickanddirtytips.com/soy-pros-and-cons.aspx

---Monica Reinagel

 

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