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Fruits and veggies could halt endometriosis, says Italian study

Loading up on produce instead of
meat at the market may slash women’s risk of endometriosis, the painful
migration of uterine lining into the abdomen and a major cause of
infertility, reports Prevention magazine.

Loading up on produce instead of meat at the market may slash women’s risk of endometriosis, the painful migration of uterine lining into the abdomen and a major cause of infertility, reports Prevention magazine. Italian researchers who studied 1,000 women, half with endometriosis, found that eating two servings of fruit and two of green vegetables cut the endometriosis risk by 40 per cent and 70 per cent respectively, compared with eating less than one serving of each per day. The study found that eating red meat daily and ham three times weekly or more increased the risk by 80 per cent and 100 per cent respectively, compared with eating none