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Keep blood sugar stable & prevent cancer
Maintaining a healthy weight, watching calories and choosing whole grains and veggies over white flour and sugar may do more than reduce your risk of diabetes and heart disease. It may also cut your risk of breast cancer, and other cancers, too.
New research suggests that overeating, especially easily absorbed carbs like white bread, white rice, white pasta, potatoes and sweets, may change the body’s delicate hormone balance, creating an environment conducive to cancer growth, Michael Pollak, M.D., McGill University oncology professor director of the Cancer Prevention Center at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, writes today in Cancer Prevention Research.
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