Dr. Tim Harlan aka Dr. Gourmet
Special for HealthKey.com
October 27, 2010
The researchers analyzed the diets of those women in the study who were diagnosed with breast cancer, and found no association between grapefruit intake and incidence of breast cancer, regardless of their Body Mass Index, or other variables.
On the contrary, when they split those women with breast cancer between those women who were on hormone replacement therapy and those who were not, they found that eating more grapefruit (1/4 grapefruit or more per day, on average) was related to a reduced risk of breast cancer in those women who had never been on hormone replacement therapy.