How can the Mediterranean diet help prevent breast cancer?
A study shows that the Mediterranean diet, which includes plant-based foods and healthy fats like olive oil, can help reduce invasive breast cancer. Michael Roizen, MD, discusses exciting findings about this healthy diet.
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60% reduction in invasive breast cancer in the olive oil group.
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This is an amazing study. This was the PREDIMED study looking at coronary artery disease.
But they reanalyzed the data. Yeah, the Mediterranean diet with olive oil or with walnuts, hazelnuts, and almonds,
those three nuts combined, decreased cardiac and stroke events by about 30%. But then they did it and looked at the women, 4,000-some women,
divided into the three groups of olive oil plus Mediterranean diet, their normal Spanish diet, which they had a little more
too much fat in, and the nut diet. And what happened? A remarkable-- this is huge--
60% reduction in invasive breast cancer in the olive oil group.
Now, how much olive oil did they get? About 1.5 ounce. That's not even huge-- 1.5 ounces a day.
That's all. But the whole family did it together. So probably they all got a lot of benefits.
The walnut group, not statistically significant but about a 32% reduction in breast cancer.
This is the second study where the Mediterranean diet made a difference in cancer. The first one, LION-HEART, long time ago.
No one even bothered to repeat it-- the LION-HEART study. But a 10% reduction in all cancers. They didn't have enough women in it
to break out breast cancer versus other things. But a huge, huge breakthrough with this
study on breast cancer and extra virgin olive oil. [AUDIO LOGO]
breast cancer
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