Tea as well as citrus fruits as well as juices are associated with a lower gamble of developing ovarian cancer, according to novel interrogation from the University of East Anglia (UEA).
The interrogation reveals that women who eat foods containing flavonols as well as flavanones (both subclasses of dietary flavonoids) significantly decrease their gamble of developing epithelial ovarian cancer, the fifth-leading drive of cancer decease alongside women.
The interrogation squad studied the dietary habits of 171,940 women aged betwixt 25 as well as 55 for to a greater extent than than iii decades.
The squad works life that those who consumed nutrient as well as drinks high inwards flavonols (found inwards tea, ruddy wine, apples as well as grapes) as well as flavanones (found inwards citrus fruit as well as juices) were less probable to prepare the disease.
Ovarian cancer affects to a greater extent than than 6,500 women inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland each year. In the United States, most 20,000 women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer each year.
Prof Aedin Cassidy, from the Department of Nutrition at UEA's Norwich Medical School, led the study. She said: "This is the outset large-scale report looking into whether habitual intake of unlike flavonoids tin flaming trim the gamble of epithelial ovarian cancer.
"We works life that women who eat foods high inwards 2 sub-groups of powerful substances called flavonoids -- flavonols as well as flavanones -- had a significantly lower gamble of developing epithelial ovarian cancer.
"The principal sources of these compounds include tea as well as citrus fruits as well as juices, which are readily incorporated into the diet, suggesting that elementary changes inwards nutrient intake could demand keep an impact on reducing ovarian cancer risk.
"In particular, simply a twain of cups of dark tea every solar daytime was associated with a 31 per cent reduction inwards risk."
The interrogation was the outset to comprehensively essay the half dozen major flavonoid subclasses acquaint inwards the normal diet with ovarian cancer risk, as well as the outset to investigate the impact of polymers as well as anthocyanins.
The report was led yesteryear Prof Cassidy as well as Prof Shelley Tworoger, from the Brigham as well as Women's Hospital as well as Harvard Medical School. Data was derived from the Nurses' Health Study.