More Proof – Eating Right Helps Prevent Breast Cancer
Oct 3rd, 2009 | By Jennifer Anderson | Category: Nutrition Spotlight, Women's Health
A new study by the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition has confirmed that certain diets lower your risk of breast cancer dramatically.
In the study more than 50,000 African-American women, researchers found that the women that had a more nutritiously prudent diet lowered their risk for developing breast cancer by a whopping one third.
Eating whole grains, fruits, vegetables and fish as part of a regular diet and staying away from processed and red meats seems to be the diet of health according to the study. Out of the 50,778 black women from across the U.S. Between 1995 and 2007, 1,094 of those women were diagnosed with breast cancer. The study showed that the overweight women were more likely to develop breast cancer but also showed that overweight women sticking to this diet didn’t lower their chances for developing breast cancer.
The younger thinner women that stuck to the diet were 20% less likely to develop breast cancer then there thin counterparts that ate a more western world diet filled with red meat, sugars, and less fruits and vegetables. The reasons are unknown, but taken together, the researchers write, these studies suggest that the protective effect of a prudent diet may be “largely among thinner women.”
Whatever the effects on breast cancer, though, the prudent diet is one that is recommended for better overall health — including a lower risk of heart disease, the number-one killer of U.S. women.
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