Health Claims

Eating a lot of packaged junk food can quickly raise your blood sugar, cause long-term body swelling, and mess up your gut bacteria. This weakens your body's ability to fight off sickness and makes...

Drinking sugary drinks quickly puts a lot of sugar into your blood, which can create conditions in your body that might help cancer grow because these drinks don't have fiber, don't make you feel...

Eating a lot of sugar makes your body produce more insulin and IGF-1, which are like strong growth signals. Cancer cells have more receptors for these signals, so they grow faster and more...

Cancer cells eat up sugar really fast to grow and multiply quickly, even when there's plenty of oxygen around.

Cancer growth and spread can be affected by things like your body's hormone levels, how much inflammation you have, and what kind of fuel your cells use for energy.

Many cancers could be avoided by making healthy choices like eating well and exercising. For women, about 4 out of 10 cancers might be prevented this way, and for men, it's about 6 out of 10.

Adding certain spices like pepper to meat before cooking might help reduce harmful chemicals that form during cooking, because the spices have natural protective properties.

Adding garlic and onion to meat while cooking might make it healthier by reducing harmful chemicals that form, thanks to the natural antioxidants in these spices.

Adding spices to meat before cooking it at high heat might lower the amount of harmful chemicals that can form, which could make the food safer to eat.

Experts gave different advice for fresh red meat versus processed meat because they might affect your health differently, and people have different preferences. They only looked at health, not the...

A group of experts looked at the best research to give advice on how much red meat and processed meat people should eat, considering health effects like heart disease and cancer, and what matters to...

Official food advice says to eat less red meat and processed meats like bacon, but this advice mostly comes from studies that can't prove cause and effect and don't show how much risk there really is.

Certain things like how you cook, what kind of meat you use, and what you add to it can lower the amount of harmful chemicals that form when you barbecue.

You can make grilled meat safer by cutting off burnt parts, stopping fat from dripping and burning, using marinades with vinegar or lemon juice, or picking leaner meat to reduce harmful chemicals.

When you grill meat, chemicals called PAHs can form from the smoke and flames. Eating these chemicals might raise your chances of getting cancer.

Eating more fiber might lower your chances of getting breast cancer, according to a big review of studies.

Eating more fiber might lower your chances of getting cancers in your stomach or intestines, according to a big review of past studies.

Eating more fiber might help people live longer by lowering their chances of dying from cancer.

Eating more fiber in your diet might help lower your chances of getting cancer overall, according to a big review of past studies.

Researchers followed nearly 10,000 Finnish adults for 24 years and found that eating foods with nitrates or nitrites didn't increase their chances of getting stomach or intestinal cancers.

Eating a lot of smoked and salted fish might raise your chances of getting colon cancer later in life, based on a long-term study of Finnish adults.

Eating more of a chemical called NDMA might raise your chances of getting colon cancer, according to a long-term study of Finnish people.

When someone is overweight and exposed to a lot of NDMA (a chemical found in some foods and water), their chance of getting cancer goes up more and more as the exposure increases.

Eating more foods with a certain chemical called NDMA might raise your chances of getting colon or rectal cancer by 12% if you're an adult.