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

The American Cancer Society (ACS) publishes 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 5 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 ACS Guidelines include recommendations for individual choices regarding diet and physical activity patterns, but those choices occur within a community context that either…

• KP
  Kaiser Permanente
• UO
  University of Arizona Cancer Center
• PS
  Pennsylvania State University
• CF
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• UO
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• UO
  University of California, San Francisco
• UA
  University at Buffalo
• NC
  National Cancer Institute