April 12th, 2010

Cancer prevention eating vegetables doesn’t prevent or cure cancer. A major study performed in over 470,000 Europeans has revealed that consuming vegetables doesn’t help to prevent cancer. The study was published in the most current issue of The Journal of the National Cancer Institute, and the results don’t mean that you should stop eating a healthy diet.

Vegetables are shown to help prevent certain ailments such as heart disease. There’s also some indication that some vegetables may indeed still a have cancer fighting compounds.

The study followed European men and women for 9 years and found that those that consumed more vegetables had a cancer reduction risk of 4% per every two servings – hardly a significant decrease at all.

Still yet the health benefits of eating a healthy diet are strong. This is why that even though there isn’t a significant reduction in cancer risks everyone should still try to eat the recommended allowance of vegetables a day.

If you are concerned about cancer prevention you should speak with your healthcare provider.

Source: NY Times

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