Eating a diet that includes plenty of tomatoes may prove important for lowering breast cancer risk, findings from a preliminary intervention study suggested.
When postmenopausal women at high risk for breast cancer ate tomatoes-rich foods every day for 10 weeks they had significant increases in serum adiponectin concentrations, with the strongest effect observed among lean women.
Adiponectin is an adipocyte-specific protein that plays an important role in regulating glucose homeostasis and fatty acid metabolism. The link between adiponectin levels and cancer has not been proven, but a recent meta-analysis of 17 studies concluded that high levels of the hormone may decrease the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. http://www.medpagetoday.com/HematologyOncology/BreastCancer/43518
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