The study found that a healthy plant-based diet could reduce the risk of breast cancer by 14%.
Studies show that dietary quality is important for breast cancer prevention
There is evidence that the foods we eat can affect our chances of developing cancer, but it is not always clear which foods or eating habits are most effective in reducing the risk of cancer. .. According to the results of recent studies, the quality of a person’s food or general health can be very important.
A study based on more than 65,000 postmenopausal data found that a healthy plant-based diet had a 14% lower risk of breast cancer and an unhealthy plant-based diet had a 20% higher risk. A woman who has been tracked for over 20 years. Findings were similar across all breast cancer subtypes.
“These findings emphasize that increasing the consumption of healthy vegetable foods and reducing the consumption of unhealthy vegetable and animal foods may help prevent all types of breast cancer. “We are,” said Sanam Shah, a PhD candidate at the Center for Epidemiology and Population Research. Lead author of health and research at the University of Paris-Saclay, Inserm, Gustave Roussy, France. Shah presented the findings at NUTRITION 2022 LIVE ONLINE, the flagship annual meeting of the American Society of Nutrition, held June 14-16.
Many dietary patterns, including Western, Mediterranean, and vegetarian diets, have been the subject of previous studies investigating the risk of cancer. Some studies claim that a diet that consumes little or no meat is beneficial, but the evidence is quite contradictory. In a new study, researchers distinguish between healthy vegetable foods such as whole grains and those classified as health problems, such as fruit juices, refined grains, potatoes, sugared beverages, and desserts. I focused on doing. , Fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes, vegetable oils, and tea or coffee.
“The difference in our research is that we were able to unravel the impact of the quality of plant-based foods, which was not the focus of previous research on other dietary patterns,” Shah said. “By scoring healthy, unhealthy, animal-based foods, we have comprehensively analyzed food intake, taking into account the” health “of the food group. “
The researchers completed a dietary intake questionnaire in 1993 and 2005 and analyzed data from 65,574 postmenopausal women living in France, who were followed up for an average of 21 years. During the course of the study, 3,968 study participants were diagnosed with breast cancer. A comparison of breast cancer rates among women with different diet qualities revealed that there was a significant difference in cancer risk between women eating a healthy diet and an unhealthy diet.
Researchers used 18 food groups to classify participants’ adherence to plant-based and animal-based diets and the extent to which they ate healthy and unhealthy foods. Shah explained that plant-based diets are not comparable to vegan and vegetarian diets and generally focus on plant-based foods rather than animal-based foods.
While findings suggest that choosing healthy plant-based foods is likely to help prevent cancer, Shah says that with diets in diverse populations, especially to determine causality. He said more research is needed to assess its relationship to cancer risk.
Meeting: NUTRITION 2022 LIVE ONLINE
