Again, dietitians caution that taking a pill that contains a certain vitamin, phytochemical or antioxidant is not the answer in cancer prevention. If we take a pill that mimics one compound in a certain food, we may be missing everything else that could have come in that food. Oranges, for example, may give us Vitamin C, but they also give us fiber and fluid plus a host of other compounds we haven t yet discovered. Kobliner says while children are more picky and less prone to try new things, they will ultimately grow into them if you just keep exposing them to different foods. So someday she will want to eat them, too.
Exercise is also important in preventing disease.
ACS epidemiologist Kourtney Davis, Ph.D., points out that exercising 30 minutes a day is not hard to accomplish. Take a brisk walk, and then do five minutes of vigorous housecleaning, five minutes of gardening, and take the stairs at work, she says. Professor Walter Willett, chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health and one of two American authors of the AICR study, says people must look at the whole picture. There is now definitive evidence that some types of fats are strongly beneficial in preventing heart disease. Yet so many women in their desire to reduce cancer risks have been eliminating healthy fats from their diet, he says.