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True or False: Your diet can help prevent skin cancer.

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True or False: Your diet can help prevent skin cancer.

The wonderful news is that depending on how you do it— the pleasure-filled act of eating can actually help you stave off skin cancer! True: Your diet can help you prevent skin cancer! New research from Israel’s Tel Aviv University showed that a diet high in antioxidants and Omega-3s can actually help the body protect itself from skin cancer. The lead author of the findings, Niva Shapiro, R.D. explains that “many foods from the Mediterranean diet have antioxidative characteristics that help fight the sun’s damaging effects.” This study helps explain why there is such a low incidence of skin cancer in the Mediterranean area, only 3 out of 100,000...

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