Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer Prevention

(11 min.) This program is about how you can take steps to help protect yourself and your family from various types from cancer. About one third of all cancer deaths may be related to what we eat. Making positive choices in your diet everyday promotes good nutrition and good health and may reduce your risk of some types of cancer. This program is designed for healthy people and its recommendations are consistent with seven simple guidelines developed to help people eat and maintain a healthy diet.

Topics included in this safety video are: seven simple guidelines for a healthy diet, food and food components that are related to cancer risk including dietary fiber, high fat diets, reduced fat content, dairy products, reduced calorie or low-fat salad dressings and margarines, vitamin A, vitamin C, beta-carotene, dark green leafy vegetables, red, yellow, and orange vegetables and fruits and juices made from any of these, vegetables from a cabbage family, season vegetables with herbs, spices, and lemon juice rather than fats and salt, bake, steam, poach, roast, or use a microwave oven, foods high in dietary fiber, fruits, vegetables, whole grain breads and cereal, foods low in dietary fat, drinking alcoholic beverages in moderation, avoid unnecessary X-rays and too much sunlight, wear protective clothing and use effective sunscreens, take estrogens only as long as necessary and prescribed by your physician, and don't smoke.

Program comes with a CD-ROM of written materials, including test questions and answers. English title also includes PowerPoint presentation.