01-27-2005

Can You Lower Your Risk of Kidney Cancer?

Women who eat bananas, salads, and root vegetables may be less likely to develop kidney cancer, suggests a new Swedish study. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden analyzed dietary information from 61,000 women aged 40-76 and followed the group for 13 years.

Bananas, root vegetables, white cabbage and salad vegetables seemed to offer strong protection against Renal Cell Carcinoma the most common form of kidney cancer. This according to the authors of the report published in the International Journal of Cancer (vol 113, issue 3, pp451-5)

Eating salads more than once a day decreased the risk by 40 per cent in comparison to no consumption, while women who ate bananas four to six times a week had about half the risk of kidney cancer as those who did not eat the fruit.

Courtesy American Longevity Archives