A colorectal dietitian shares 2 foods she eats regularly and 1 she avoids to lower her cancer risk

Sophie Medlin is a consultant colorectal dietitian.

Sophie Medlin After 20 years of being a colorectal dietitian, Sophie Medlin has tweaked her diet along the way.

There are certain foods she has cut out or minimized, while others she's made a habit of eating.

She makes eating foods that can lower colon cancer risk as easy as possible.

Sophie Medlin has been a colorectal dietitian for 20 years, and in that time she has made some changes to her diet to lower her risk of colon cancer.

Medlin and her husband, who is a chef, cook most of their meals, meaning they mainly eat a diet of whole, unprocessed foods .

But they still go out for dinner or order takeout occasionally.

"It's not perfect all the time.

Nobody can be perfect all the time," Medlin, who is based in London, told Business Insider.

Cases of colon cancer in younger people have been rising since the mid-90s, and it is now the deadliest cancer form of the disease for under-50s.

While scientists don't know what's behind the uptick, evidence suggest that healthy lifestyle choices like exercising regularly and eating a balanced diet, lower the risk.

Medlin shared the two foods that she tries to eat daily and one she limits as much as possible.

Limit red meat and eliminate processed meat "I've essentially eliminated processed meat," she said.

This includes buzzy snacks like beef jerky, which are "getting a bit of a health halo at the moment because of the high protein trend," Medlin said.