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Low-Fat Diet May Reduce Risk of Recurrent Breast Cancer

By Henry J. Fishman, M.D.
ConsumerAffairs.com

April 14, 2005

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Low fat diets may -- that’s may -- reduce the risk of breast cancer recurring.

This is according to a recent study conducted by doctors at the UCLA Medical Center. Researchers studied more than 2,400 women treated for breast cancer. About 1,000 were placed on a moderately low fat diet of about 33 grams a day.

The other group ate an average of 51 grams a day. Each group met with a dietician 8 times and had their eating habits checked by phone.

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The low fat diet seemed to help. Women on the lower fat diet not only lost 8 pounds but they had a lower recurrence rate of breast cancer.

The low fat diet helped women who had estrogen-positive as well as estrogen-negative tumors.

Now this is the first study to show that a low-fat diet may help to prevent breast cancer recurrences. Other studies have shown that a low-fat diet may prevent initial breast cancers though the jury is still out.

Eating a low fat diet is good for you. It certainly can’t hurt you and may help prevent recurrent breast cancer.

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