You Become What You Eat
The Nutrition Factor

Menu Lee Wattenberg: Prevention Pioneer (B) Nutrition and Cancer (R) Antioxidants: the Hunt for Free Radicals (R) Reading Food Labels (P) Phytochemicals: Guarding the Gates (R) What's in There?: Vitamin C in Fruit Juice (L) Cooking Up Prevention at the Phytochemistry Grill (C) T = Timeline R = Reading B = Biography L = Laboratory   C = Class activity P = Paper activity M = Mathematics I = Interactive web activity

Some national estimates suggest that as many as one-third of all cancers may be related to diet and nutrition. It seems simple to suggest that the food we eat might provide us with some measure of protection against cancer and other diseases, but growing research evidence says just that. The picture is far from clear, but this much is sure: The foods we eat make a difference in our health.

Because phytochemicals is a topic that many students may know little about, there are three readings that provide background—Nutrition and Cancer, Antioxidants: the Hunt for Free Radicals, and Phytochemicals: Guarding the Gates. The activity that encourgaes students to include phytochmicals in their daily diets is Cooking Up Prevention at the Phytochemistry Grill. The lab activity is about the process of determining how much of a specific nutrient a food contains. There is also an activity that encourages students to learn to read food labels and a biography of Lee Wattenberg, who pioneered nutrition as a cancer preventive.