Mediterranean diets offer a significant lowering of breast cancer and cardiovascular disease

A huge study involving 4000 women aged between 60 and 80 years of age has established that those participants who followed a Mediterranean diet had a much lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who followed a low-fat diet at five years follow up.

In fact, the reduction rate in the women who added a generous splash of olive oil to their Mediterranean diet was as much as 68 % and those who added nuts to their Mediterranean diet were 41% less likely to develop breast cancer as compared with those who were eating predominantly a low-fat diet.

The Mediterranean diet which includes fish, plant foods, extra-virgin olive oil and around about a 30gm helping of mixed nuts is also well known for reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease.

More information:

JAMA Internal Medicine 2015; online.