Eat your vegetables, part 9

Women who consumed more vegetables (including cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, onions, squash, and tomatoes) or salad had a lower risk of non-Hodgkins lymphoma in a study of 1,300 people. Fiber was also linked to a lower risk, while eating more fruit (apples and oranges) wasn't.

What to do: This study doesn't prove that vegetables protect the lymph system. But eating more can't hurt, and may reduce your risk of stroke and heart disease, as well as some cancers other than lymphoma.

Amer. J. Epidem. 159: 454, 2004.

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