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Low-Fat Diet curtails Cancer

Threat

 

Used to be you had to have a child or actively prevent one with oral contraceptives to lower your risk of ovarian cancer. But recent research shifts the focus from the kids to the kitchen. Findings suggest that ovarian cancer may also be thwarted with foods like sugar snap peas and skim milk.

 

When researchers evaluated the eating habits of 450 women with ovarian cancer and 564 without, they saw that cutting ten grams of saturated fat a day (that’s switch from two glasses of whole milk to the same amount of skim) could trim the risk of ovarian cancer by 20 percent. And adding ten grams of vegetable fiber-what you’d find in about one cup of cooked lentils-may take down the risk another 37 percent. The study saw no relationship between unsaturated fats and risks for this cancer.

 

Small studies have hinted at links between diet and reduced risk of ovarian cancer, but this first, large study of the issues gives the idea some real weight.

 

“It appears possible to cut your risk of ovarian cancer in half by an aggressive modification of the diet, “Says Harvey A. Risch, M.D., Ph. D., associate Professor of epidemiology and public health at Yale University School of Medicine.

 

Theories abound about how diet might affect hormones. Meat and dairy foods may contain small amounts of estrogen. Estrogen-like compounds are also found in vegetables. The ban may think they’re the real hormone and halt its own production. Or the fiber in those vegetables may grab estrogen and escort it out of the body.

 

Of Course, the diet this study points towards isn’t all that Spartan. Studies suggest most people eat more saturated fat than they need to, and cutting it by a third by switching protein sources much of the time is a smart thing to do for other health benefits, too.

 

“The point isn’t that people should never eat hamburgers,” he says. “But things that are eaten regularly that are high in saturated fat should be cut back.  People don’t realize how little meat protein they need per day to live perfectly well. Four ounces of meat a day is probably sufficient for most women.”

 


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