New report: Wholegrain foods may independently lower colorectal cancer risk

A few days ago, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) and the World Cancer research Fund (WCRF) published an updated report on diet, nutrition, physical activity and colorectal cancer. As a result of an increasing number of studies on wholegrain foods and cancer, this was the first time that wholegrain foods were independently linked to a lower colorectal cancer risk in the AICR/WCRF report. A reduction by 17 percent was found from eating approximately three servings of wholegrain daily.

Read more on AICR’s website here.

The full report can be found here.