FOODS THAT PREVENT AND CONTROL CANCER: OLIVE OIL

Eating too much fat has been linked with breast cancer. This has been adequately proved by a research study of 750 Italian women.

 It was found in this study that the women who eat the most saturated fats have triple the risk of breast cancer as compared to those eating the least. Eating too much fat can influence the spread and virulence of an existing breast cancer, its recurrence and survival chances. Some researches show that the more saturated animal fat in your diet, the greater the odds of auxiliary lymph node involvement or spread of the cancer, and the more total fat in a diet, the greater the chances of dying from breast cancer. Monounsaturated fat, the type predominant in olive oil, is however, not cancer a culprit. In fact, new evidence suggests that olive-oil-type fat can help counteract cancer. Mediterranean women who eat lots of olive oil have low rates of breast cancer, as do Japanese women who eat lots of fish oils but little animal fat.