What if just one lifestyle change could help you avoid getting cancer or diabetes or

heart disease or high blood pressure?

This one change could cut your risk of chronic disease and add years to your life.

Well the simple solution to so many of these problems is to eat a healthy diet.

In other words, one centered around whole plant foods.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

There are lots of things you can do to reduce your risk of getting cancer.

Avoid tobacco, maintain healthy weight.

But one of the simplest kinds of cancer prevention is to follow a healthy diet.

The vast majority of cancer research is devoted to finding cures rather than finding

new ways to prevent disease. And the results of these skewed priorities are plain to see.

2021 is the 50th anniversary of Nixon's Declaration of War on Cancer.

And the death tolls from the most common forms of cancer in the United States have continued

unabated.

We've been looking at the very nature of cancer in the wrong way.

Breast cancer doesn't begin when a lump is first detected.

All the common cancers, like long colorectal breasts and prostate, which cancer for the majority

of deaths, have a long latency period, often 20 years or more.

So it's not like you were healthy and then one day you got cancer, you haven't been healthy.

You've had cancer growing in you for a decade.

Indeed, there's a bizarre misperception that people are healthy until they have actual symptoms

of invasive cancer.

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