What is an anti-cancer diet? Not a diet with a curative effect, but a preventive one. And the anti-cancer diet promoted by Professor Umberto Veronesi, an Italian excellence who recently left us, resembles regimes like that of Dr. Longo’s longevity diet , or the diets of the Blue Zones, those areas of the planet where the population exceeds expectations. of life of Western and modern man, or to diets such as the SmartFood promoted by the Ieo.

All these regimes have points in common , which outline the perfect anti-cancer diet: consumption of fruit and vegetables, whole grains, moderate consumption of proteins, and in particular of animal proteins, with fish to the advantage of meat, use of mono and polyunsaturated. To these generic lines is added the advice to move more and to moderate at the table, also observing a period of controlled caloric restriction: one day of fasting (or semi-fasting) in the case of prof. Veronesi, the mime-fasting method in the case of Dr. Longo.

Let’s see other characteristics of prof Veronesi’s anticancer diet: 
– consume seasonal fruit and vegetables, reducing cooking times or preferring them in raw form – avoid frequent consumption of cured meats and red meats (especially the first), preferring white meats – prefer the consumption of fish, crustaceans and molluscs to other animal proteins – use mainly olive oil as edible fat – prefer stewed or steamed cooking – enrich the diet with antioxidants such as turmeric, garlic, green tea, red wine (in moderation) – never miss citrus, red fruits, crucifers, green leafy vegetables from your diet