Cancer Prevention Blog

Understanding why you crave unhealthy foods is one step towards beating them.

If you started 2012 with a resolution to lose weight or give up unhealthy foods, you may be finding it hard to keep to your good intentions.  If that’s the case, understanding why you crave certain (often unhealthy) foods at regular intervals throughout the day is one step towards beating those cravings.

Everyone experiences cravings from time to time.  But why is it that we suddenly want chocolate after a healthy meal?  Why … Continue Reading

Keeping lean helps reduce cancer risk

At the heart of World Cancer Research Fund’s (WCRF) message are our 10 Recommendations for Cancer Prevention.

These came about from the Second Expert Report – published in 2007 – and were developed by a panel of 21 international experts looking at nearly 7,000 research studies from all over the world.

Certain foods, drinks and lifestyle factors were judged and the panel came to a conclusion about whether a particular factor was linked to cancer, as well as the strength … Continue Reading

Choosing less energy dense food can reduce cancer risk

Last month World Cancer Research Fund commissioned a survey by YouGov to try to assess what people really know about the number of calories in the foods they eat on a regular basis.

Today these results were published in several national newspapers – the Daily Express, Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Times, Metro and i – as well as featuring on Sky News, BBC London and Heart FM.

The poll was also reported by the Press Association … Continue Reading