EON

Toronto – According to a recent study, a healthy diet not only decreases weight, but can also decrease the chances of breast cancer from returning.

However to get the benefit, women need to eat more than the recomended number of servers for fruit and vegetables, according to the study.

Ellen Gold of the University of California Davis, who helped lead the study was quoted by Reuters saying that, “Women with early stage breast cancer who have hot flashes have better survival and lower recurrence rates than women who don’t.”

However, the finding was held only for women who did not have hot flashes after their therapy, which showed some indication that fruits and vegetables act on estrogen.

John Pierce of the University of California San Diego added, “It appears that a dietary pattern high in fruits, vegetables and fiber, which has been shown to reduce circulating estrogen levels, may only be important among women with circulating estrogen levels above a certain threshold.”

Then again, these findings aren’t that new.

A second look was taken at results from 3,000 breast cancer patients to see if a diet that was low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables achieved that task anyway. The result–a diet of that magnitude showed overall risks of getting breast cancer was low, if dedicated to the change in eating.