| Recent studies have now shown that maintaining a | | | | Among women who took part in the study, 20 |
| quality diet can help in preventing breast cancer | | | | percent of those on prudent daily diets were one |
| among many women. It seems that diet is becoming | | | | third less likely to develop breast cancer in |
| more and more at the centre of prevention these | | | | comparison to those on a more 'western diet' of |
| days and with good reason, you are what you eat. | | | | fatty and processed foods. As always however |
| Perhaps the problem is that most of us maintain only | | | | these trials are rarely black and white... |
| short periods of good diet and it does not become | | | | One subject which did complicate the study was that |
| effective until it's a full time life habit. The speed and | | | | of age and weight which are both important points. |
| pressure of modern lifestyle can make it difficult to | | | | The exact reasons are still unclear but the studies |
| avoid the convenience of processed food but if we | | | | suggest that the benefits afforded by a prudent diet |
| are worried about long term health the issue is clear - | | | | are mostly for thinner women. Overweight women |
| diet is crucial. | | | | will still be at high risk despite maintaining a prudent |
| We all need to get a little more serious about it. | | | | diet. |
| This diet is being referred to as the prudent diet. It's | | | | The overall lesson is once again that diet does so |
| made up of whole grains, vegetables of course and | | | | many things for so many diseases and gives each of |
| fish. The usual suspects are kept to a minimum such | | | | us a universal insurance policy against a great variety |
| as red meats and white bread or any other form of | | | | of possible diseases. |
| starchy carbohydrates. | | | | |