Diets enhanced with ground flaxseed helped control ovarian tumors in hens.

Preliminary research shows that a flaxseed-supplemented diet in hens may decrease the severity of ovarian cancer. Adding flaxseed to your diet may provide health benefits, but research is still quite limited on the effectiveness and safety of high amounts of it. These researchers found that hens eating a diet of more than 10% flaxseed (equivalent to 10 tablespoons per day in a human diet) developed liver damage. Flaxseed can also slow or decrease absorption of certain medications.

Women with highest soy intake had lowest risk for endometrial and ovarian cancers.

A meta-analysis of five published studies on soy food intake and risk of endometrial and ovarian cancers revealed that those women who consumed the highest amounts of soy had the lowest risk of these cancers. More than 169,000 women from China, Italy, Japan and the U.S. were included in the studies. It is postulated that the soy isoflavones bind to estrogen receptors and stimulate anticancer properties.

PositiveTip: Consumption of moderate amounts of soy foods appears to be not only safe, but may be quite protective as well.