Eating 2-3 Peaches Daily Could Halt Breast Cancer Progression, a Study Finds

By: Elizabeth Renter

(NaturalSociety)

A new study from researchers at AgriLife Research at Texas A&M indicates eating two to three peaches each day could slow the spread of breast cancer in women.

Published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry, the recent study says breast cancer cells in mice were dramatically impacted by the consumption of peaches.

“Cancer cells were implanted under the skin of mice with an aggressive type of breast cancer cells, the MDA-MB-435, and what we saw was an inhibition of a marker gene in the lungs after a few weeks indicating an inhibition of metastasis when the mice were consuming the peach extract,” said Dr.  Luis Cisneros-Zevallos.

“Furthermore, after determining the dose necessary to see the effects in mice, it was calculated that for humans it would be equivalent to consuming two to three peaches per day.”

The researchers say phenolic compounds present in the peach extract are responsible for slowing the cancer progression. This is doubly important because most breast cancer deaths are attributed to the spread of the cancer throughout the…

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