Sustainable diets significantly reduce cancer risk

A sustainable diet is associated with a statistically significant reduction in cancer risk and cancer mortality rate. This was the result of a large systematic review with Swiss participation. Sustainable diets are increasingly being recommended as a strategy to reduce non-communicable diseases and promote health worldwide. Current unhealthy dietary patterns are recognised as contributing to the global cancer burden, while certain types of production further exacerbate environmental problems. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Investigating the impact of sustainable diets on cancer is therefore of crucial importance," wrote Marina Kasper from the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine at the University of Regensburg and her co-authors, including Sabine Rohrmann from the University of Zurich. The researchers published their review of the scientific literature, which analysed data from 2.2 million people, in The Lancet journal eClinicalMedicine.