Italian Study Finds Mediterranean Diet can Reduce Risk of Womb Cancer by 57%

Women who adhered to the Mediterranean diet by eating between seven to nine beneficial food groups lowered their risk of womb cancer by more than half.

The Mediterranean diet emphasizes on eating lots of vegetables, fruits, nuts, pulses, cereals and potatoes, fish, monounsaturated fats but little meat, milk and other dairy products and moderate alcohol intake. It helps to lose weight, feel great, and improve your heart health. Adding to the goodness of Mediterranean diet, a new study has claimed that foods like vegetables, fish, fruits and nuts, reduces risk of womb cancer by a massive 57%.

The Italian researchers studied the diets of over 5,000 Italian women to see how closely they stuck to a Mediterranean diet and whether they went on to develop womb cancer. They found that women who adhered to the Mediterranean diet most closely by eating between seven and nine of the beneficial food groups lowered their risk of womb cancer by more than half. Women who stuck to six elements of the diet’s components reduced their risk of womb cancer by 46% and those who stuck to five reduced their risk by 34%. However, women whose diet included fewer than five of the components did not lower their risk of womb cancer significantly.

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Mediterranean diet has long been considered one of the healthiest diets on the planet. This diet plan discourages the use of saturated fats and hydrogenated oils while cooking meals.

Lead author Dr Cristina Bosetti, from the IRCCS-Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche, said, "Our research adds more weight to the understanding of how our every day choices, like what we eat and how active we are, affect risk of cancer."

Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK’s head of health information, added, "Cancer risk was affected by our age and our genes but a healthy lifestyle could also play a part in reducing the risk of some cancers."

The research appears in the British Journal of Cancer.

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