Tree Nuts or Peanuts for Breast Cancer Prevention?
Channel: NutritionFacts.org
Date: 2012-12-31

Eating fiber-containing foods—especially nuts—during adolescence may significantly lower the risk of developing potentially precancerous fibrocystic breast disease (fibroadenomas). 

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Harvard also found that fiber and nut consumption was associated with a significantly longer lifespan in women. See What Women Should Eat to Live Longer (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-women-should-eat-to-live-longer/). Soy consumption during adolescence also seems particularly protective. See Thursday's video Why Do Asian Women Have Less Breast Cancer? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/why-do-asian-women-have-less-breast-cancer/). The reference to the Black Women's Health Study was referring to Friday's video-of-the-day Preventing Breast Cancer By Any Greens Necessary (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/preventing-breast-cancer-by-any-greens-necessary/). What effect might even just a few weeks on a diet full of plants have on breast cancer cell growth? See The Answer to the Pritikin Puzzle (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-answer-to-the-pritikin-puzzle/). Don't nuts make you fat, though? You'd be surprised—see Nuts and Obesity: The Weight of Evidence (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/nuts-and-obesity-the-weight-of-evidence/).

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