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Walnuts And Vitamin E May Protect Against Breast Cancer... This is a mouse study, but mouse studies are utilized greatly because the effect of substances on mice is substantially predictive of their effect on humans. Walnuts are already known to be quite good for you. They are strongly supportive of cardiovascular health, and they triple blood levels of the sleep hormone melatonin. So there may be no better bedtime snack than a handful of walnuts.

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Walnuts may help lower breast cancer risk
United Press International
09-02-11

Mice that ate a modest amount of walnuts as part of their regular diet had a significant decline in breast cancer risk, U.S. researchers say.

Study leader by Elaine Hardman of Marshall University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine compared the effects of a typical diet and a diet containing walnuts across the lifespan of the mice -- through the mother from conception through weaning and by eating the food directly.

The amount of walnut in the test diet was equal to about 2 ounces a day for humans, Hardman said.

The study -- funded by grants from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the California Walnut Commission, and published in the journal Nutrition and Cancer -- found the group of mice that had a diet that included walnut at both stages developed breast cancer at less than half the rate of the group with the typical diet.

In addition, the number of tumors and their sizes were significantly smaller, the study said.

Using genetic analysis, the researchers found that the walnut-containing diet changed the activity of multiple genes that are relevant to breast cancer in both mice and humans.

However, other testing showed that increases in omega 3 fatty acids did not fully account for the anti-cancer effect and found that tumor growth decreased when dietary vitamin E increased, Hardman said.

Copyright United Press International 2011
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