Med diet linked to lower cancer risk

A MEDITERRANEAN diet has been linked with a lower breast cancer risk in a major study that followed almost 15,000 women for over a decade.

The link was seen only among women who were past menopause and not younger women.

And while the findings, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, do not prove that the diet itself offers protection against breast cancer, they add to research tying the traditional Mediterranean diet to lower risks of heart disease and cancers such as cancer of the colon and stomach.