Diet Tips to Help Prevent Cancer

There are things that people can eat and ways to prepare food that can help people avoid getting cancer.

Fruits and vegetables that are darker in color – such as dark-colored grapes – have more antioxidants than their lighter-colored counterparts.

“They’re finding that if you char meat, if you grill it or sear it and it develops that brown coating, that could potentially be a carcinogen,” said Stephanie Schiff, RD, registered dietitian at Huntington Hospital. “So to lower that risk, it’s better to cook meat in a moist environment, so you can braise it or you can boil it like in chicken soup. You can make a brisket in the oven and put sauce on it. Something where you don’t get that char, that crust.”

There have also been studies that excess salt in a person’s diet increases their risk of colorectal cancer, Ms. Schiff said.

Ms. Schiff has been offering these tips and others in a nutritional seminar held at the hospital.

To learn more about the link between obesity and cancer, click here.

To see a video about this, click here: http://bit.ly/1jywMXl