Just over 40 years ago, the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR) was founded based on what was then a radical idea: that everyday eating and lifestyle choices affect people’s chances of getting cancer. Decades of research since then have changed the understanding of how cancer develops. The influence of diet and physical activity on cancer risk are now a part of virtually all major health-related lifestyle guidelines. And research offers new hope that people living with and beyond cancer can proactively make choices that help improve health outcomes. 

A new problem has developed: overwhelm. Today, lack of information is much less a problem than decades ago. People are now surrounded by often conflicting information. The public and other healthcare professionals rely on dietitians to help them make sense of what they hear from media and marketers, friends, and family. But it’s easy for nutrition professionals to feel overwhelmed by information overload, too. 

Join Karen Collins, MS, RDN, CDN, FAND, for a session that will help dietitians find an easier – and better – way to provide the evidence-based answers and guidance people need, without scrambling to read up on every single study. Karen will look at how the AICR has developed recommendations on diet and physical activity choices based on what’s recognized as the gold standard synthesis and interpretation of the best of accumulated scientific research. And she’ll review what the recommendations mean for reducing cancer risk and increasing cancer survivorship. Leave this session with a clear sense of what’s known today and how to share it with others.