Eating beans or lentils at least twice a week may reduce a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, according to research designed to investigate the benefits of the plant compounds flavonols. Reporting in the 20 April issue of the International Journal of Cancer (vol 114, issue 4, pp 628-33), researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston said that while they found no overall association between intake of flavonols and risk of breast cancer,”there was an inverse association with intake of beans or lentils that merits further evaluation”.
