Cited by 336Cancer Risks and FactorsNutritional Studies and DietGlobal Cancer Incidence and Screening

American Cancer Society Guidelines on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Cancer Prevention: Reducing the Risk of Cancer with Healthy Food Choices and Physical Activity

Open access
Byers, T., Nestle, M., McTiernan, A., Doyle, C., Currie-Williams, A., Gansler, T., Thun, M.·2002·CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians

Abstract

The American Cancer Society (ACS) has set aggressive challenge goals for the nation to decrease cancer incidence and mortality--and to improve the quality of life of cancer survivors--by the year 2015. To address these critical goals, the ACS publishes the Nutrition and Physical Activity Guidelines to serve as a foundation for its communication, policy, and community strategies and ultimately, to affect dietary and physical activity patterns among Americans. These guidelines, published every five years, are developed by a national panel of experts in cancer research, prevention, epidemiology, public health, and policy, and as such, they represent the most current scientific evidence related to dietary and activity patterns and cancer risk. The American Cancer Society guidelines include recommendations for individual choices regarding diet and physical activity patterns, but those choices occur within a community context that either facilitates or interferes with healthy behaviors. Therefore, this committee presents one key recommendation for community action to accompany the four recommendations for individual choices for nutrition and physical activity to reduce cancer risk. This recommendation for community action underscores just how important community measures are to the support of healthy behaviors by means of increasing access to healthful food choices and opportunities to be physically active. The ACS guidelines are consistent with guidelines from the American Heart Association for the prevention of coronary heart disease as well as for general health promotion, as defined by the Department of Health and Human Services' 2000 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.3322/canjclin.52.2.92

Cites

68 of 68 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 17

  1. Krauss RM, Eckel RH, Howard B, et al. American Heart Association Dietary Guidelines: Revision 2000:A statement for healthcare profes- sionals from the Nutrition Committee of the American Heart Association. Circulation 2000; 102:2284-2299.
  2. US Department of Health and Human Services. USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 5th ed., 2000. Home and Garden Bulletin No. 232:239.
  3. The Work Study Group on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer: ACS Guidelines on Diet, Nutrition, and Cancer. Cancer 1991;41:334-338.
  4. Biesalski HK, de Mesquita BB, Chesson A, et al. European consensus statement on lung cancer: Risk factors and prevention. Cancer 1998;48: 167-176.
  5. Glade MJ. Dietary fat and cancer: Genetic and molecular interaction. Annual Research Conference, American Institute for Cancer Research. Nutrition 1997;13:75-77.
  6. Kushi LH, Lenart EB, Willett WC. Health implications of Mediterranean diets in light of contemporary knowledge. 2. Meat, wine, fats, and oil. Am J Clin Nutr 1995;61:1465-1427.
  7. Hill HA,Austin H. Nutrition and endometri- al cancer. Cancer Causes Control 1996;7:19-32.
  8. Flegal KM, Carroll MD, Kuczmarski RJ, et al. Overweight and obesity trends in the United States: Prevalence and trends, 1960-1994. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 1998;22:39-47.
  9. McTiernan A. Associations between energy balance and body mass index and risk of breast carcinoma in women from diverse racial and eth- nic backgrounds in the US. Cancer 2000;88: 1248-1255. 15424863, 2002, 2, · DOI
  10. Health Implications of Obesity. National Institutes of Health Consensus Statement 1985 Feb 11-13;5:1-7.
  11. Freidenreich CM, Rohan TE. Physicial activ- ity and risk of breast cancer. Eur J of Cancer Prev 1995;4:145-151.
  12. International Agency for Research on Cancer, World Health Organization. Cancer Prevention Series. Physical Activity Body Weight, and Cancer. 2001. Lyon, France. In Press.
  13. Pangrazi PP. Promoting physical activity for youth. J Sci Med Sport 2000;3:280-286. 53a. Corbin CB and Pangrazi PP. Physical activi- ty for children:A statement of guidelines. Reston, VA, National Association for Sport and Physical Education, 1998.
  14. Report on Carcinogens, Ninth Edition; US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, National Toxicology Program; May, 2000.
  15. Martinez ME, Willett WC. Calcium, vitamin D, and colorectal cancer: A review of the epi- demiological evidence. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 1998;7:163-168.
  16. Petrakis NL, Barnes S, King EB, et al. Stimulatory influence of soy protein isolates on breast secretion in pre-and post- menopausal women. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 1996;5:785-794.
  17. Katiyar SK, Mukhtar H. Tea in chemoprevention of cancer: Epidemiologic and experimental studies. Intl J Oncology 1996;8:221-238.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Byers, T., Nestle, M., McTiernan, A., Doyle, C., Currie-Williams, A., Gansler, T., & Thun, M.
Affiliations
  • University of Colorado Denver (US)
  • New York University (US)
  • Fred Hutch Cancer Center (US)
  • American Cancer Society (US)
Venue
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2002-03-01
Volume
52
Issue
2
Pages
92-119
ISSN
0007-9235 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4237763995
Cited by
336
References
68
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 16 · 2017: 14 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 9 · 2012: 17
FWCI
10.60
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Risks and Factors
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
Keywords
cancer prevention, nutrition, physical activity, dietary habits, cancer risk reduction, healthy food access, community action, health behavior, cancer incidence and mortality, cancer survivorship, Dietary Guidelines for Americans
MeSH terms
Alcohol Drinking, American Cancer Society, Body Weight, Feeding Behavior, Humans, Neoplasms, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, United States, Exercise

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review