Food, nutrition, physical activity and cancer prevention. Authoritative report from World Cancer Research Fund provides global update

From little acorns mighty oak trees can grow. On 1 November last year the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) released its second comprehensive report on the role of food, nutrition and physical activity in the prevention of cancer This imposing volume, the product of an exhaustive and meticulous 5-year review of the world's scientific literature by a pantheon of nutritional scientists, epidemiologists and biostatisticians, comes 10 years after the first WCRF report on the same topic. This new report also comes exactly a quarter of a century after the establishment of the WCRF progenitor, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR). That AICR 'acorn' first took root in the inner-suburban soil of

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