Health and Nutrition Letter

Eating Plenty of Produce Could Halve Pancreatic Cancer Risk

December 2005

Abstract

The smartest thing you can do about pancreatic cancer is eat a lot of what you find in the produce section of your grocery store. That’s the suggestion from a new epidemiological study of links between diet and the relatively rare but deadly disease: Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco found that eating lots of vegetables, especially yellow and dark green produce, may reduce the risk of pancreatic cancer by as much as half.

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