Another study recommends a Mediterranean diet rich in additional virgin olive oil and plant-based sustenances can cut ladies’ bosom disease hazard by very almost 70-percent.
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Women who were randomly assigned to follow a Mediterranean diet – one with lots of fruits, vegetables, olive oil and fish, but not much red meat, dairy or sugar – had a 68% lower risk of breast cancer after 4.8 years, compared with women told to follow a low-fat diet, according to the study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. The others were asked to only reduce the intake of fat in their routine diet. So the whopping drop in breast cancer risk came from just a handful of breast cancers. Observed rates (per 1,000 person-years) were 1.1 for the Mediterranean diet with extra-virgin olive oil group, 1.8 for the Mediterranean diet with nuts group, and 2.9 for the control group. Miguel A. Martínez-González, M.D., of the University of Navarra in Pamplona and CIBEROBN in Madrid, Spain, and his team conducted the present research. It was also found out that women who were following the nut-rich diet had a slight decrease in the risk, although the decrease was not statistically significant.
The study involved a total of 4,152 post-menopausal women who did not have any history of breast cancer.
She called the study findings “great news for people interested in breast cancer prevention”.
On top of that, a subset of women were given a liter of extra-virgin olive oil per week for themselves and their families, while another group was given 30 gram allotments of mixed nuts, including walnuts, hazelnuts and almonds.
“The results of the PREDIMED trial suggest a beneficial effect of a MeDiet supplemented with EVOO in the primary prevention of breast cancer“.
“Preventive strategies represent the most sensible approach against cancer”, Martinez-Gonzalez and colleagues wrote.
Limitations for these results include the small number of outcomes, that not all women were screened for breast cancer with a mammography, women were not blinded to dietary type, and that all women were white, postmenopausal and at high risk for cardiovascular disease.
Breast surgeon Susan Love notes that researchers didn’t ask whether women were getting mammograms, which can find breast tumors years before they’re large enough for women or their doctors to feel a lump. “It may also prevent breast cancer“.
“We have now evidence to support that olive oil is causally related to reduction in risk of breast cancer“, he said. “We hope to see more emphasis on Mediterranean diet to reduce cancer and cardiovascular disease and improve health and well-being”.
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The study group adding olive oil were told to eat about 4 tablespoons a day, Martinez-Gonzalez said, and to use it as a spread, for salads and for cooking and frying.
