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Extra Fruits and Vegetables Don’t Necessarily Help Prevent the Recurrence of Breast Cancerdiv

July 18, 2007 By MedNews Leave a Comment

It is recommended to eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetable a day. A clinical study of women who ate twice as much as the recommended servings found that both groups had about the same in long term breast cancer survival.

The results were not what the researchers expected, as they thought the extra nutrients would improve the body’s ability to fight off recurrence of breast cancer. The extensive study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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