{"id":16556,"date":"2020-12-07T10:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T15:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16556"},"modified":"2020-11-24T11:18:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:18:04","slug":"breast-cancer-survivors-may-benefit-from-higher-intakes-of-fruits-and-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/07\/breast-cancer-survivors-may-benefit-from-higher-intakes-of-fruits-and-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Survivors May Benefit from Higher Intakes of Fruits and Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GKmwes_b7uW_c6oTLNuVT3SHSwRxSpb2BEemIw8TeDWmg1glLzMDg3BV14Rdg610BHlcPgojWXszlcTurjtQXaWCcSwLB_A-300x300.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GKmwes_b7uW_c6oTLNuVT3SHSwRxSpb2BEemIw8TeDWmg1glLzMDg3BV14Rdg610BHlcPgojWXszlcTurjtQXaWCcSwLB_A-300x300.gif 300w, https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/GKmwes_b7uW_c6oTLNuVT3SHSwRxSpb2BEemIw8TeDWmg1glLzMDg3BV14Rdg610BHlcPgojWXszlcTurjtQXaWCcSwLB_A-150x150.gif 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recently published study suggests that there is yet\nanother reason to eat more fruits and vegetables. This study of 8,927 women,\nwho had been diagnosed with breast cancer, asked the women about their diet\nevery 4 years after their diagnosis. Over the follow-up period, averaging 11.5\nyears, slightly more than a quarter of the women died; almost half of the\ndeaths were related to breast cancer. Women who ate more fruits and vegetables\nand women who ate more vegetables after their diagnosis had a lower risk of\ndying from any cause than did women with lower intakes of these foods. Women\nwith the highest intakes of vegetables and fruits averaged 7.4 servings per\nday; those with the lowest intake averaged 2.2 servings per day. When the\ninvestigators examined specific foods, they determined that women with a\ngreater intake of green leafy and cruciferous vegetables (vegetables in the\ncabbage family) had a lower risk of death than did women with lower intakes of\nthese foods. Vegetables and fruits high in vitamin C and vegetables high in\nbeta-carotene (like carrots, winter squash, and sweet potatoes) were associated\nwith a lower risk of death. Blueberries appeared to be associated with a lower\nrisk of death. Each 2 servings\/week of blueberries was associated with a 25%\nlower risk of dying from breast cancer and a 17% lower risk of dying from any\ncause. Higher fruit juice consumption., but not higher orange juice\nconsumption, was associated with a higher risk of death from breast cancer and\nfrom any cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farvid MS, Holmes MD, Chen WY, et al. Postdiagnostic fruit\nand vegetable consumption and breast cancer survival: prospective analyses in\nthe Nurses&#8217; Health Studies. <em>Cancer Res<\/em>. 2020;80(22):5134-5143.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Reed Mangels, PhD, RD A recently published study suggests that there is yet another reason to eat more fruits and vegetables. This study of 8,927 women, who had been diagnosed with breast cancer, asked the women about their diet every 4 years after their diagnosis. Over the follow-up period, averaging 11.5 years, slightly more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16558,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16556\/revisions\/16558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}