Vegetarian Diet May Protect Against Breast Cancer
 (New York, Reuters Health, 5/14/02)

Dr Isabel dos Santos Silva and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, studied vegetarians who had migrated to England from India or East Africa, matching 240 breast cancer victims with 477 healthy controls. They found that the women who maintained a diet rich in vegetables and legumes had a lower risk of breast cancer than those who had adopted a Western diet.