Healthier food and cancer

President Biden has a major moonshot project lined up for the country. Right now. Speaker2: We can do this. We can end cancer as we know it. Speaker3: I'm part of the president's cancer moonshot. And when I say I, I mean the Department of Agriculture is. Speaker1: That's Tom Vilsack, secretary of agriculture. So why is the AG Department involved in the cancer moonshot effort? Speaker3: Because we have the capacity through research potentially to prevent cancer, not to cure it, but to prevent it through proper nutrition, specifically precision nutrition, the ability to really focus on specific dietary needs of individuals based on their health condition, in which food may very well be helpful in either preventing or mitigating the consequences of a disease. Speaker1: That's because science is showing a definite connection. Speaker4: Between diet and cancer and other chronic diseases. Speaker1: University of North Dakota Professor Dr. Donald Warne is a professor of family medicine and he says the average American diet and lifestyle is creating an epidemic of obesity Overweight, and obesity is clearly linked and associated with certain types of cancers. Speaker1: So he says we need to do something about obesity and the obesity epidemic. Speaker4: That's got to be a part of the cancer moonshot and addressing cancer prevention. Speaker1: Dr. Moore says some foods can help reduce cancer risk, especially dark green and red and orange vegetables and some fruits. But he says those are mostly the ones Americans don’t want to eat.