NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Teenage girls who eat more colorful fruits and vegetables are less likely to develop benign breast disease as young adults, according to an observational study.
Benign breast disease, or a group of lumps that can develop during adolescence or young adulthood, is not in itself dangerous. But benign breast disease does increase the risk of breast cancer later in life, the authors of the new study write.
Seeing the same association between certain antioxidants and benign breast disease among teen girls as has been seen for breast cancer among adults is exciting, said Caroline E. Boeke who worked on the study at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.
"Consumption of these vegetables might be a way to prevent benign breast disease," Boeke said. However, she noted that this is an observational study, and can't prove veggies ward off the disease.
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