Eating to Prevent Breast Cancer: These Foods May Help | Dr. Kristi Funk Live Q&A
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Learn the foods that can help prevent breast cancer and the foods you might be eating that can increase your chances of receiving a life-altering diagnosis.
Dr. Kristi Funk, surgical breast cancer specialist and medical director of the Pink Lotus Foundation, joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room LIVE to share her tips for beating and preventing breast cancer, including the foods every woman should be eating to lower their risk.
Plus, Dr. Funk will answer questions sent to the Doctor's Mailbag.
- Which berries are best for lowering the risk of breast cancer?
- Do natural or refined sugars increase cancer risk?
- Which vegetables are best?
- How much fat is too much in a cancer prevention diet?
- Can cheese cause cancer?
- Can vitamin D prevent breast cancer?
- Plus, many others.
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Dr. Kristi Funk
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Chuck Carroll
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| 0:00.0 | What berries are the healthiest when it comes to breast cancer prevention? |
| 0:05.6 | There was a study that looked at over 3,100 foods and measured their antioxidant content |
| 0:10.8 | and at the tibetitop, literally 124 times the blueberry was general, please. |
| 0:21.7 | Welcome to the Exammer and Podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:25.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:28.4 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us coast to coast in the US and in |
| 0:33.0 | more than 150 countries. |
| 0:35.4 | Hi to everyone listening in Escondito, California, Round Rock, Texas, and Las Grutas, Argentina. |
| 0:43.4 | We appreciate you all, helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:48.2 | This is episode 76 of season 5, number 375 overall. |
| 0:55.2 | And our Let's Beat Breast Cancer Series rolls right on. |
| 0:59.5 | And on today's show, we begin with 4 questions based off of the fact that more than 2 million |
| 1:04.6 | women will be diagnosed this year alone with breast cancer. |
| 1:09.7 | So those questions are, what can be done to bring down that astronomical number and should |
| 1:16.8 | food be a big part of that fight? |
| 1:21.6 | And when it comes to diet and breast cancer, just how strong is that connection? |
| 1:28.5 | And finally, is your dinner, telling you more than your genes when it comes to your risk? |
| 1:35.8 | Renowned breast cancer surgeon and the founder of the Pink Lotus Foundation, Dr. Christy |
| 1:40.2 | Funk joined me on the exam room live this week with all of those answers. |
| 1:44.9 | And we will be learning together today so many things, discovering the foods that you |
| 1:49.4 | can be eating right now that will lower your risk and the ones that will drive up that |
| 1:55.2 | risk with every bite. |
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