Diet and Pancreatic Cancer

In a study of more than 500,000 Americans, those who ate a healthy diet reduced their risk for pancreatic cancer by 15 percent.

The diet used in the study followed federal dietary guidelines from 2005 and recommended eating a variety of nutritional foods and limiting saturated and trans fats, cholesterol, added sugars, salt and alcohol.

“Maintaining a healthful diet has many potential health benefits,” said lead researcher Hannah Arem, from the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics at the U.S. National Cancer Institute.

“Our study specifically suggests that individuals who reported dietary intakes in adherence with the federal dietary guidelines had a lower risk of pancreatic cancer,” she said.

Arem said this finding shows only an association, and does not prove that eating a healthy diet prevented pancreatic cancer.

“The study was conducted in an observational cohort, meaning that we cannot draw conclusions about cause and effect,” she said.

Healthy Eating Might Ward Off Pancreatic Cancer: Study – By  Steven Reinberg

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