Diet and Breast Cancer
Starting with the big picture, the American Institute of Cancer Research has a list of interventions women can make throughout their lives to minimize the risk of breast cancer.
I found a couple of sites that will let you estimate your risk of breast cancer (here & here).
A nice overview of diet and breast cancer is here (see also here).
Here are some good brief (5 min or less) videos to help you learn more:
- The #1 anticancer vegetable.
- The best dietary interventions for breast cancer.
- Breast cancer survival vegetable.
- Fiber vs breast cancer.
- Flax seeds and breast cancer (& here).
- Mushrooms & Breast cancer.
I would like to emphasize the importance of flax seeds since they also lower prostate specific antigen (& here) and blood pressure. I suggest two tablespoons of GROUND flax seed per day (a coffee grinder works great). It’s easy to take in almost any breakfast cereal. Note that flaxseed oil does NOT contain lignans. and therefore will not work to prevent prostate or breast cancer.
In addition carotenoid-rich (orange colored) foods are associated with a 19% lower risk of breast cancer.
Click here for more videos on the topic of diet and breast cancer and here for information on environmental risks and breast cancer (scroll down). Even more evidence is here.
