Study Finds High Vegetable Diet Lowered Breast Cancer Risk

One more reason to eat your veggies!

A new study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology has found a link between vegetable rich diets and a lower risk of breast cancer.

Using the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, which includes lots of greens, grains, and fruits, researchers determined women who followed closest to the dietary model had a 20% less chance of developing the disease. Specifically, estrogen receptor negative breast cancer that is known to account for a quarter of all breast cancer.

The study followed 86,000 women for 26 years, with only 1% developing estrogen receptor-negative breast cancer.

Sources note a DASH diet does not guarantee prevention, but there is an association which decreases the risk. Although, as of now, scientists aren’t exactly sure why.

Researchers have said that it may be because other kinds of cancers have other factors that outweigh the beneficial effects from diet.

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