Walnuts may cut breast cancer risk

WASHINGTON: By eating walnuts, women could reduce their risk of breast cancer, researchers said on Tuesday.

Researchers at Marshall University School of Medicine in Huntington, West Virginia, found that lab mice bred to develop breast cancer had a significantly lower risk of breast cancer if fed the human equivalent of a handful of walnuts a day.

"We know that a healthy diet overall prevents all manner of chronic diseases," Elaine Hardman, one of the researchers working on the study, said in a statement.