What teen girls should eat to lower breast cancer risk later in life
The average teenager’s diet mostly consists of what we known as junk food, but new research suggests that adolescent girls who ate more of certain fruits and vegetables had a lower risk of developing breast cancer. Harvard School of Public Health doctors took their time to look at how fruit and vegetable consumption in adolescence and early adulthood affected cancer risk later on in life. They found out that teenage girls who had the highest fruit consumption during their adolescence – about three servings per day compared to a half serving – had a roughly 25 per cent lower risk of breast cancer diagnosis by middle age. According to the scientists, there are certain fruits that lowers risk of breast cancer. Apples, Bananas and Grapes are singled out followed by oranges in early adulthood. These fruits are packed with fibre and high in flavonoids – antioxidants that fight cell damage. Some of the produce is also high in vitamin C. Meanwhile, American Institute for Cancer Researc