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NCI Director's Update: Energy Balance: The Complex Interaction of Diet, Physical Activity, and Genetics in Cancer Prevention and Control
At a time when nearly two-thirds of the U.S. population is considered overweight or obese, compelling evidence suggests that excess body weight is a risk factor for many cancers.
Striking a Healthy Energy Balance
This edition of BenchMarks sheds some light on the complexities of energy balance and cancer.
Optimizing Energy Balance to Reduce the Cancer Burden
This section of the NCI Plan and Bypass Budget for FY 2005 focuses on the goals of
understanding the causes of adverse patterns of weight, physical activity, and
diet; defining their contributions to cancer; and applying this knowledge to
cancer prevention and control.
Obesity and Cancer: Questions and Answers
A fact sheet that summarizes research on the potential link between obesity and cancer risk.
Cancer Progress Report: Weight
This section of the Cancer Progress Report focuses on the relationship between overweight and obesity and cancer risk.
Cancer Research Portfolio: Obesity
Information about NCI-supported, obesity-related research projects from the Cancer Research Portfolio database.
Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch: Weight, Height & Related Measures
The Risk Factor Monitoring Methods Branch (RFMMB) is part of the Applied Research Program within NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. RFMMB supports research related to improving the assessment and monitoring of population changes in height, weight, body fat distribution, and body composition in national, regional, and at-risk subpopulations in the United States.
Obesity Research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
This Web site has information about NIH-supported research to facilitate
progress toward obesity prevention and treatment.
FDA Proposes Action Plan to Confront Nation's Obesity Problem
To help tackle what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is calling the
"nation's obesity epidemic," the FDA released the final report of its Obesity
Working Group March 12, 2004.
Questions and Answers: Physical Activity and Cancer
A fact sheet that summarizes research on the potential link between physical activity and cancer risk.
Health Promotion Research Branch
Part of NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, the Health
Promotion Research Branch coordinates research on the behavioral prevention of
cancer in the areas of physical activity, energy balance, and diet, and leads
efforts to develop measurement techniques in these research areas.
Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch: Physical Activity
The Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch (RFMMB) is part of the Applied
Research Program within NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population
Sciences. This Web site provides information about monitoring and assessing
physical activity within national, regional, and at-risk subpopulations in the
United States. Accurate assessment of physical activity is important to
understanding the relationship between physical activity and cancer.
Cancer Control PLANET: Physical Activity
Physical Activity: 5 Steps to Effective Cancer Control Planning.
HHS: smallstep.gov
Small steps to better health, including dietary and physical activity changes.
CDC: Nutrition & Physical Activity
Physical activity and good nutrition are key factors in leading a healthy lifestyle and reducing chronic illnesses.
5 A Day Web Site
The national 5 A Day for Better Health Program gives Americans a simple, positive message: Eat 5 or more servings of fruits and vegetables every day for better health.
Analytic Epidemiology Research Branch
Part of the Epidemiology and Genetics Research Program within NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, the Analytic Epidemiology Research Branch
leads and supports research to study determinants of cancer susceptibility and
risk. One area of research focuses on diet and nutrition and cancer.
Lifestyle and Preventing Cancer
Information from NCI's Division of Cancer Prevention about how a number of
lifestyle factors, such as diet, food, nutrition, smoking, and other factors,
influence cancer risk.
Health Promotion Research Branch
Part of NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, the Health
Promotion Research Branch coordinates research on the behavioral prevention of
cancer in the areas of physical activity, energy balance, and diet, and leads
efforts to develop measurement techniques in these research areas.
Nutritional Epidemiology Branch
Part of NCI's Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, the Nutritional Epidemiology Branch conducts independent and collaborative research on the role of diet and nutritional status in the development of cancer.
Nutritional Sciences Research Group
Part of NCI's Division of Cancer Prevention, the Nutritional Sciences Research
Group plans, develops, directs, and coordinates research programs in diet,
nutrition, and cancer related to cancer prevention.
Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch: Dietary Intakes
The Risk Factor Monitoring and Methods Branch is part of the Applied Research Program within NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS). This Web site provides information about dietary research conducted within DCCPS. Validated dietary assessment tools, including short dietary assessment instruments and food frequency questionnaires, are also available.
Cancer Control PLANET: Diet
Diet: 5 Steps to Effective Cancer Control Planning.
Cancer Control PLANET: Diet/Nutrition
Diet/Nutrition: 5 Steps to Effective Cancer Control Planning.
HHS: smallstep.gov
Small steps to better health, including dietary and physical activity changes.
CDC: Nutrition & Physical Activity
Physical activity and good nutrition are key factors in leading a healthy lifestyle and reducing chronic illnesses.
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