Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagle and you're listening to the

nutrition diva quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous

my friend Jan was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.

Fortunately, Jan's doctor detected the cancer in the very early stages and Jan's going to be just fine.

Nonetheless, it's been a very difficult and scary time.

Last week, Jan asked me for advice on how she might change her diet to reduce her risk of

recurrence.

And given how common breast cancer is, this is something every woman

should probably think about. Although diet plays a role in the

development and progression of breast cancer, it is a fairly secondary one.

Still, it's the factor that we probably have the most control over.

Even though no diet or food can prevent breast cancer, if certain habits can reduce our risk, why wouldn't we adopt them?

Let's just make sure that we're basing our decisions on sound science.

There's a popular book called The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, which argues that

consuming dairy products increases your risk of breast cancer. Although Campbell's book has

convinced many readers that Dairy causes cancer.

There are significant criticisms of his methodology, his statistical analysis, and his conclusions.

Over the last 10 years, dozens of studies, several of them involving thousands of subjects,

have investigated the possible relationship between dairy consumption and breast cancer,

and researchers have failed to turn up any link between dairy and breast cancer risk.

In fact, in a few of the studies, dairy consumption was actually linked to a slight reduction

of risk.

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