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Diet and breast disease
Although it has been suggested that there might be a connection between diet and breast disease, a definitive link to the disease has not been found.
A 1992 Harvard University study of nearly ninety thousand women found no link between dietary fat and breast disease. But a nineteen ninety study by the National Cancer Institute of Canada suggested that if postmenopausal women get nine percent of their calories from saturated fat instead of the current average of fourteen percent, breast cancer rates among these women would fall by ten percent.
The same study suggested that adding produce, rich in vitamin C, to the diet would cut cases of breast cancer an additional fourteen percent.
Women with fibrocystic (fy-bro-siss-tick) breast disease, a non -cancerous condition causing lumps in the breast, are cautioned to avoid caffeine.
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