Eat to Defeat Cancer Campaign Could Change the Face of Prevention

This campaign comes not a moment too soon. Finally let's put some energy toward prevention and as we do that, let's focus on the single most important activity we do, eat. Our diet is our body's medicine and we feed our bodies three times a day, so what we eat has a huge impact.

The campaign is built on research published in peer reviewed journals from the National Cancer Institute, the American Medical Association, and the American Society of Nutrition and partners with chefs like Ming Tsai and Mario Batali.

The Eat to Defeat Cancer Campaign was created by the Angiogenesis Foundation, and it's the first campaign of its kind to target cancers with diet. The campaign wants us all to get involved in the fight against the disease by taking a few easy steps:

- Choose foods from the Eat to Defeat Cancer food list.

- Make delicious recipes from the list.

- Host dinner parties that feature these foods and then educate friends and family about the foods.

- Pass it on through social networking sites.

- Support the research conducted by the Eat to Defeat Cancer Campaign.

We've talked about moving toward prevention before. Christina Pirello laid out a list of cancer prevention measures, specifically regarding breast cancer, that went beyond diet. She listed steps for reducing your risk of breast cancer as much as possible; some that you may already know, like cutting alcohol intake to special occasions and avoiding processed foods, but some others that may surprise you, like the dangers in yo-yo dieting and their direct link to breast cancer. It seems more and more of us of realizing that prevention of this awful disease is key.

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