Breast cancer, diet and health inequalities
Live Well Be Well with Sarah Ann Macklin | Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition
English - November 22, 2020 13:00 - 1 hour - 142 MBNutrition Health & Fitness Arts Fashion & Beauty evidencedbased fashion health nutrition science wellbeing Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
With 2.5 million in the UK living with cancer, and breast cancer is the number one cancer for women, affecting 1 in 8 women in the UK. Yet, with 23% of breast cancers preventable in the UK, what could we be eating more and less of to help reduce our risk? Why is it that black women have the poorest health outcomes when it comes to breast cancer? Why are health inequalities still so prevalent in 2020? What do we need to change and how can we educate ourselves more on these health inequalities?
To help me explore this further, I speak to Toral Shah, chef and nutritional scientist with a BSc in Cell Biology from UCL and an MSc in Nutritional Medicine from the University of Surrey, as well as the founder of Urban Kitchen.
Show notes and resources
Stats on health inequalities along with the link to the feminist paper re WHO.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30110-0/fulltext
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)32069-9/fulltext
Anti-racism resources: https://www.theurbankitchen.co.uk/pages/anti-racism-resources