Study: Teens Who Eat an Egg a Day May Cut Risk of Breast Cancer

Teenage girls who eat one egg each day are 18 percent less likely to develop breast cancer as adults, according to Harvard Medical School researchers.

Breast cancer risk also was reduced among teenage girls who ate the most vegetable oils and fiber, the researchers reported in the journal Breast Cancer Research.

Women who said they ate one pat of butter each day as teens were at a slightly higher risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer as adults, the researchers added.

The researchers conducted a study in which more than 120,000 adult women between the ages of 40 and 65 were required to report what they had eaten when they were 12 to 18 years old.

The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute.

Other sources: Breast Cancer Research