By Henry J. Fishman, M.D.
ConsumerAffairs.com
April 14, 2005
Low fat diets may -- thats may -- reduce the risk of breast cancer recurring.
This is according to a recent study conducted by doctors at the UCLA Medical Center. Researchers studied more than 2,400 women treated for breast cancer. About 1,000 were placed on a moderately low fat diet of about 33 grams a day.
The other group ate an average of 51 grams a day. Each group met with a dietician 8 times and had their eating habits checked by phone.
The low fat diet seemed to help. Women on the lower fat diet not only lost 8 pounds but they had a lower recurrence rate of breast cancer.
The low fat diet helped women who had estrogen-positive as well as estrogen-negative tumors.
Now this is the first study to show that a low-fat diet may help to prevent breast cancer recurrences. Other studies have shown that a low-fat diet may prevent initial breast cancers though the jury is still out.
Eating a low fat diet is good for you. It certainly cant hurt you and may help prevent recurrent breast cancer.
