This report – produced as part of CUP Global – provides further clarity on dietary and lifestyle pattern (DLP) recommendations for breast and colorectal cancer prevention following a comprehensive review of 170 global studies.
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This factsheet outlines how our Recommendation to be physically active can be rolled out at a population level. It expands advice in our Policy blueprint for cancer prevention, which combines evidence on cancer risk – our Cancer Prevention Recommendations – with policy advice for population-level prevention.
Published January 2025.
Our Policy blueprint for cancer prevention brings together World Cancer Research Fund’s expert Cancer Prevention Recommendations with population-level policy advice. It outlines a package of policy recommendations to promote healthy diets and weight, support breastfeeding, increase physical activity, and reduce alcohol consumption. Its goal is to prevent cancer and support healthier environments for people living with and beyond a diagnosis.
Published January 2025.
Joint statement by World Cancer Research Fund International, NCD Alliance, ISPAH, World Obesity Federation and UICC to World Health Assembly 71 on agenda item 12.2: physical activity for health.
Delivered May 2018.
The development of the MOVING policy framework and database: monitoring and promoting action in physical activity policy.
Poster presentation at the HEPA conference in August 2022.
World Cancer Research Fund provided comments to consultation questions 70 and 71 on promoting healthy communities and tackling childhood obesity regarding proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework.
Submitted September 2024.
World Cancer Research Fund’s comments on the 10-year Health Plan for England and how the government can strengthen efforts to reduce preventable cases of cancer.
Submitted December 2024.
A short explainer of the MOVING physical activity policy database.
Our policy report, Policy and Action for Cancer Prevention, supports the scientific research in our Second Expert Report, Food, Nutrition and Physical Activity: A Global Perspective, and sets out how policymakers can create supportive environments to encourage people to adopt World Cancer Research Fund International’s Cancer Prevention Recommendations. Based on the evidence, integrated, multi-sectoral action is needed globally to achieve healthier diets and sustained physical activity.
Published 2009.
Building momentum: Establishing robust policies to promote physical activity in primary healthcare sets out the emerging evidence for the benefits of promoting physical activity in primary healthcare, and explains why designing and enacting such policies is good for individual health and economies.
A summary of the report is also available.
Published 2023.
Driving action to prevent cancer and other non-communicable diseases is a policy framework for promoting healthy diets, physical activity and breastfeeding, and reducing alcohol consumption. The policy framework can be used to consider policy actions that will help make environments conducive for people and communities to follow our Cancer Prevention Recommendations.
Published in 2018.
The MOVING physical activity policy index brief outlines the status of physical activity policy in 30 European countries. It was developed as part of the CO-CREATE project and can be used by stakeholders to promote ways that make it easy to be physically active.
The aspirational standards accompany the policy brief and outline the structure and scoring options of the MOVING physical activity policy benchmarking tool, which include 23 benchmarks (and associated indicators) across the 6 policy areas of the MOVING framework.
The MOVING physical activity policy index brief is available in English, French, German and Spanish.
The zip file contains the individual country snapshots in English, all the snapshots in one file and the policy brief.
Published May 2023.