Avoid products that use tropical oils, such as cookies, crackers and chips. Be sure any poultry, eggs or red meat you eat is organic and from range-fed animals. Eat plenty of soy products and flaxseed meal. Soy products contain healthy, estrogen-like substances that block the harmful effects of the body s internally produced estrogens, says Rountree. And a combination of soy and flax together appears to be better than either one alone - flax meal in particular.
Flaxseed contains several important fatty acids that can control inflammation.
Eat one serving of cruciferous vegetables every day - broccoli, cabbage and brussels sprouts. You may take higher doses of vitamin E, up to 400 IU two to three times daily. Rountree says both tocotrienols and vitamin E are useful for reducing cancer risk and appear to be help keep breast tissue healthy. Antioxidants are purported to fight the effects of free radicals, which can cause severe cell damage. You could get the same benefits from eating broccoli, he says, but you would need to eat several pounds a day versus two capsules of the di-indolemethane.