Folic acid can reduce breast cancer

"PNAS," a study released yesterday showed that folic acid can significantly reduce a woman's due to alcohol increased the risk of breast cancer. Previous research has already confirmed that ethanol would not only interfere with the body's absorption of folic acid, but also increase the rate of renal excretion of these vitamins.

ShuminZhang, MD, Harvard Medical School, etc., in its report that folic acid is to ensure that an important factor in DNA function was normal one, its content is clearly too low will lead to damage genetic material, while the latter occurs with breast cancer lesions is closely related to . Nurses are being implemented as part of the project of health research, the experts of the 32,826 volunteers of the blood tests bits of information were analyzed, of which 712 cases and was suffering from breast cancer but not breast cancer with the same number of those who have done a comparison.

It was found that one or more alcohol on a daily basis (at least containing 15g of ethanol) in women, blood levels of folic acid highest risk of breast cancer than the lowest reduced by approximately 90%. The experts therefore believe that folic acid is likely to offset to some extent with the alcohol-related increased risk of breast cancer. The study also noted that at the same time, vitamin B6, and B12 can reduce alcohol consumption does not exceed 15g per day of ethanol for women suffering from breast cancer risk, although excessive drinkers is invalid.