Yet Another Reason to Eat Those Veggies ...

Want another way to beat your risk of developing cancer? Eat those veggies! Sure they get a bad wrap for maybe not being the sexiest food, but when you learn about how Mother Nature does her job of protecting you and your loved ones in "Plant-Based Flavonoids May Cut Ovarian Cancer Risk", you will want to make a concerted effort to keep those veggies a mainstay of your dinner table. What is so combative about your local green, you may ask? It's the flavonoids, whose antioxidant chemicals are said to man up our defense systems. For ovarian cancer, researchers are theorizing that isoflavones and flavonols are what we'd like to especially thank. In a study that followed 1,031 women with epithelial ovarian cancer and 2,411 women who were cancer-free but had other serious medical problems,these women were divided into five groups and given varying amounts of flavonoids. The upshot? The women who had the "highest flavonol intake " were 37% less likely than the other women to contract ovarian cancer. Isoflavones also cut this cancer risk down by 49%. Need I say more? Bon appetit!