Can Healthy Eating Reverse Some Cancers?
By
NPR/TED Staff |
NPR
Friday, July 31, 2015
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or
Flash plugin.
Healthy diets help prevent, even reverse, some health conditions. Dr. Dean Ornish believes it can also do the same for cancer.
Courtesy of TED
Part 4 of the TED Radio Hour episode Fighting Cancer
About Dean Ornish's TED Talk
Dr. Dean Ornish studied how lifestyle changes could help people with chronic heart disease; he wanted to figure out if there was a way to do the same with patients with some types of cancer.
Read Dr. Ornish's studies about prostate cancer, intensive nutrition and lifestyle intervention and other topics.
About Dean Ornish
Dean Ornish is the author of Eat More, Weigh Less. Ornish is best known for his lifestyle-based approach to fighting heart disease. His research at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute clinically demonstrated that cardiovascular illnesses — and, most recently prostate cancer — can be treated and even reversed through diet and exercise. Ornish also works with food corporations to help stop America's obesity pandemic from spreading around the globe.
Copyright 2024 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.
View this story on npr.org
Follow us for more stories like this
CapRadio provides a trusted source of news because of you. As a nonprofit organization, donations from people like you sustain the journalism that allows us to discover stories that are important to our audience. If you believe in what we do and support our mission, please donate today.
Donate Today