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A Landmark Year |
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The Cancer Project reached several milestones and new levels of influence this year:
- In 2006, The Cancer Project increased its number of Food for Life nutrition and cooking classes from 511 in 2005 to an amazing 1,800 classes held in 25 states and 61 cities across the country.
- The Cancer Project held a daylong symposium for medical professionals in July. Along with Cancer Project president Neal Barnard, M.D., top scientists and physicians from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and the University of California, San Diego, shared critical research on diet and cancer prevention. Sessions focused on dairy products and prostate cancer, the impact of high-fat diets on breast cancer risk, the importance of cruciferous vegetables, and maintaining a healthy vegan diet.
 Paulette Chandler, M.D., M.P.H., of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, joined The Cancer Project Advisory Board in 2006. In addition to her practice, Dr. Chandler teaches Cancer Project cooking classes in the Boston area, was a featured speaker at The Cancer Project Symposium, and encourages her own patients to take control of their health by adopting healthy vegetarian diets. - Food for Life cooking classes are now being offered for credit at Elon University in North Carolina this spring. Local cooking instructor Beth Reardon, R.D., will teach the course and students will be quizzed on important cancer-nutrition topics from The Survivor’s Handbook.
- The Cancer Project received media coverage across the country, including dozens of newspaper and magazine articles and a variety of TV spots. NBC News interviewed cooking instructor Susan Neulist at a grocery store in Chapel Hill, N.C., as she pointed out the cancer-fighting properties of a variety of fruits and vegetables. This segment was picked up by 17 NBC affiliates nationwide. Cooking instructor Kristin Doyle highlighted the cancer-prevention and survival benefits of plant foods and shared some of The Cancer Project’s healthful dishes on “The View from the Bay,” a morning show that airs on KGO-TV, an ABC affiliate in San Francisco.
The Cancer Project News, Winter 2007
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