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25 Health Tips to Cut Your Cancer Risk

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Get away from grilling

If you do eat meat, rethink how you cook it: A recent study from the University of North Carolina showed that eating grilled and barbecued meat increased the risk of death among breast cancer survivors.

‘Dangerous chemicals called heterocyclic amines (HCAs) and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be produced when cooking muscle meat like beef, pork, poultry, and lamb at high temperatures over open flame or hot coals,’ says Shayna Komar, a licensed and registered dietitian at Piedmont Healthcare in Georgia. ‘These chemical reactions cause compounds in the meat to change into potentially cancer-causing agents.’

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