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Mushrooms, Childhood Soy Intake Found to Cut Breast Cancer Risk

March 24th, 2009

…women who ate the most fresh mushrooms — 10 grams or more per day — were about two thirds less likely to develop breast cancer than non-consumers of mushrooms. Meanwhile, women who ate 4 grams or more of dried mushrooms per day had half the cancer risk of non-consumers.

Finally, mushroom eaters who also drank green tea everyday had only 11 to 18 percent of the breast cancer risk of women who consumed neither Reuters

In another study, Asian-American women who ate a lot of soy as children had a 58 percent reduced risk of developing breast cancer -Reuters

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