Nutritional Recommendations for Breast & Ovarian Cancer Risk Reduction

We’ve teamed up with Cook for Your LIFE to help you make lasting and attainable dietary changes that can improve your overall health and reduce your risk for breast and ovarian cancer. Read on to learn about bright

choices to make at the grocery story, farmer’s market, while eating out, or cooking at home.

The �rst step towards healthy lifestyle change is to avoid drastic diet changes and in�exible approaches. Adding in more of what’s good—vegetables, fruits, whole grains, lean protein, and eating less of what can be harmful like processed meats, processed carbs, and saturated fats puts you on a healthful path without making unrealistic promises that can be broken.

º Diet Change 101

º Weight Gain

Get cooking! Making nourishing food gives you control over what’s in your meals and in turn, what goes into your body. Cooking turns advice from nutritionists and science into actual healthful results and most importantly can be empowering.

º Cooking As a Cure

º Learn To Cook

Proper intake of vegetables and fruits can help us in ways science both does and does not understand. Even adding one extra serving of vegetables a day to your daily intake can have a positive impact.

º Your Allies In The Fight Against Cancer

If you’re not interested in cutting out red meat, it can be a part of a healthy diet as long as you are a smart consumer and understand the risks.

º Working In Red Meat

Eat cake, but in moderation. Part of making a realistic dietary change is allowing yourself treats. There are things you can do to make them healthier.

º Try replacing white �our with whole-wheat pastry �our

º Use less-re�ned sweeteners like maple syrup or honey

º Try incorporating more fruits into desserts.

º Sugar & Cancer

º How to Treat Yourself

Soy is safe, even for those with hormone-receptive cancers, and it may even help prevent breast cancer. But, like everything else, it should be eaten in moderation.

º Soy & Breast Cancer

Know your fats and don’t avoid them completely. Many are extremely bene�cial and deserve a place on your plate.

º Fat, Friend or Foe?

Don’t be afraid to try new things like shopping at the farmer’s market. The path to better health may seem intimidating but it is also exciting - and worth it!

º How To Shop Farmers Markets

Getting friends or family to eat broccoli with you can be tough but they may end up being your best support group.

º A Veggie Among Carnivores

º Stealthy Healthy Diet

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