Mediterranean Diet May Help Reduce The Risk Of Womb Cancer

First Posted: May 27, 2015 11:28 PM EDT

New findings published in the British Journal of Cancer suggests that a Mediterranean diet may reduce the risk of developing womb cancer.

For the study, British researchers found that eating vegetables, fruits, nuts, grains, olive oil and fish helped to reduce the risk by nearly 57 percent.

More specifically, they examined the diets of over 5,000 Italian women to see just how closely they stuck to it and whether they went on to develop womb cancer. The diet was broken down into nine different components, measuring how closely women stuck to them.

"Our research shows the impact a healthy balanced diet could have on a woman's risk of developing womb cancer," Dr. Cristina Bosetti, lead author of the study, said in a statement. "This adds more weight to our understanding of how our every day choices, like what we eat and how active we are, affect our risk of cancer."

Furthermore, the findings revealed that those who adhered to the Mediterranean diet most closely ate between seven and nine beneficial food groups, lowering their risk of womb cancer by over half.

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