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Expertise: <li>Nutritional epidemiology; lifestyle and envirnonmental factors and their relationship to various types of cancer</ul>Freudenheim is an increasingly prominent nutritional epidemiologist and an expert on the relationship between diet, environment and various types of cancer. Heading a five-year study on the effect of various lifestyle factors on the risk of lung cancer, funded by the NIH. Also principal researcher on a $1.6 million federal grant to study the relationship between alcohol consumption and breast cancer, and a $457,000 grant to study early exposure to carcinogens and risk of breast cancer. Studies on the protective effect of having been breast-fed and of consuming a diet high in fruits and vegetables on breast cance risk garnered wide attention. Also studying the effect of environmental factors, such as PCBs, DDT and mirex, on breast-cancer risk, and has studied diet and colorectal cancer. Great with media; good for background information on nutrition, as well as specifics.