(STUDY FINDS) – Eating plenty of nuts can cut the risk of dying from breast cancer in half, according to new research. A study of around 3,500 patients finds that consuming nuts reduces the recurrence of the disease by up to 52 percent. Overall, mortality rates fell by nearly a third among regular consumers of the snack food.
Study authors from Vanderbilt University note that the findings applied to all types of nuts including almonds, pistachios, pecans, and brazil nuts.
“Our study is among the first to show nut consumption was associated with up to 50% reduced risk of breast cancer recurrence, spread, or mortality,” the study’s corresponding author Professor Xiao-Ou Shu, an epidemiologist at Vanderbilt, says in a statement to SWNS.
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