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Diets high in vegetables, fruits and soy might cut the risk of developing breast cancer by 30 percent, new research suggests.

In a study, Dr. Lesley M. Butler, of Colorado State University and colleagues, noticed a trend of “decreasing breast cancer risk with increasing intake of a vegetable-fruit-soy dietary pattern” in the 34,000 Chinese women studied.

Even though the researchers identified and analyzed dietary patterns among Chinese women from Singapore, Butler believes the findings are relevant for American women.

The diets “aren’t that different from patterns seen in US populations,” the lead investigator told Reuters Health.

“There’s usually a bad food pattern of meat and lots of starch and saturated fat. And then there’s the good pattern — a prudent pattern in our case — the vegetable-fruit-soy pattern,” she said.

For their study, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Butler and her colleagues used data collected between 1993 and 1995 from 63,257 men and women in the Singapore Chinese Health Study (SCHS).

The large health study used in-person interviews to gather information about diet, weight, education, smoking and exercise habits, and hormone use.

Previous research focusing on individual foods or nutrients has been inconsistent, the authors note. » Continue reading Plant-focused diet may curb breast cancer risk »