The Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation (VVF) has launched a guide that promotes healthy eating as a way to help prevent cancer. A campaign by the charity called One In Nine has led to the production of A Fighting Chance, the guide which provides practical advice on what to eat. The booklet explains how certain foods such as meat and dairy could trigger the disease and offers recipes to try that may help prevent cancer. VVF’s senior health campaigner and author of A Fighting Chance said it should be read by all women and it is important to get the information in the public domain. “Women diagnosed with breast cancer receive very little, if any, guidance on what can help them fight this disease,” she said. The One In Nine campaign focuses on the fact that one in nine women will be affected by breast cancer at some point in their lives and the VVF believes healthy eating can reduce this. Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in Britain and since 1971 the number of people with the disease has risen by 80 per cent.

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1 October 2008
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