Vegetables and Fruits beyond Dietary Guidelines, Not Beneficial for Breast Cancer Survivors
July 21, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Early stage breast cancer survivors need not eat fruits and vegetables more than the recommended dietary guidelines. Because, eating more does not reduce breast cancer recurrence or death.
Such were the findings of a new study from the Rebecca and John Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego.
According to principal investigator John Pierce, Ph.D., director of the University’s Cancer Prevention and Control Program:
“This is a definitive study. The WHEL Study provides strong evidence that, for the typical woman diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, there is no additional health benefit over 7 years from dramatically increasing the diet’s amount of nutrient-rich plant-based foods, compared to following the recommended healthy diet.”
The findings, which came from the multi-center Women’s Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Study, based at UC San Diego are published in the July 18 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Well, I’ve always thought that eating more fruits and vegetables would be of benefit long before one gets cancer. Don’t you think?
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