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Best Foods for Healthy Breasts
Broccoli and Friends
Flax Seeds
Turmeric
Red and Orange Produce
Oily Fish
Berries
Walnuts
Grapes
Soy Protein
Lentils
Black Beans
Whole Grains
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SOURCES:
U.S. Food & Drug Administration: “Code of Federal Regulations Title 21.”
Lentils.org: “Top Foods For Good Breast Health.”
Oregon State University: “Lignans.”
Cleveland Clinic: “Flaxseed: Little Seed, Big Benefits,” “The Best Foods to Eat when You Have Breast Cancer,” “The Whole Truth About Whole Grains.”
Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health: “How to Take Turmeric: 10 Ways to Make Turmeric Part of Your Daily Diet.”
Mount Sinai: “Beta carotene.”
Susan G. Komen: “Diet and Breast Cancer.”
International Journal of Cancer: “Dietary Carotenoids and the Risk of Invasive Breast Cancer.”
American Cancer Society: “Study Finds Antioxidants Risky During Breast Cancer Chemotherapy.”
American Institute for Cancer Research: “Broccoli More Nutritious When Raw or Cooked?” “Fish and Cancer Risk: 4 Things You Need to Know.”
Nutrition Journal: “Potential protective properties of flax lignan secoisolariciresinol diglucoside.”
El Camino Health: “Healthy Eating for Breast Health.”
MD Anderson Cancer Center: “5 foods that help lower your cancer risk,” “Sulforaphane benefits: How broccoli and Brussels sprouts may help reduce your cancer risk,” “3 nutrients cancer survivors should know.”
PennState Health, St. Joseph: “Plant-Based Diet, Health Weight, and Exercise Key to Breast Cancer Treatment Success.”
Moffitt Cancer Center: “Eating Walnuts May Help Breast Cancer Patients.”
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: “Lentils.”
North Dakota State University: “All About Beans Nutrition, Health Benefits, Preparation and Use in Menus.”
NutritionFacts.org: “Black Beans.”
US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health: “Whole Grain Consumption for the Prevention and Treatment of Breast Cancer.”