 The Black Women's Health Study, which highlighted collards and carrots, was out of Boston University. Across the Charles River, the Harvard Nurses' Health Study also tried to determine which plants were particularly protective in reducing breast cancer risk, and they identified nuts. The intake of fibrin nuts during adolescence and incidents of proliferative benign breast disease, such as fibrocystic breast disease, fibroatinomas, non-cancerous breast lumps, but is considered a marker for increased breast cancer risk. Depending on what biopsies show, it could indicate anywhere between 30% to 1300% greater risk of going on to develop cancer. Breast cancer can take decades to develop, so they wanted to start early, asking women what their diets were like back in high school. Now in adults it's clear, as you can see in this 2012 review, the more fiber you get in your diet, the lower your risk of breast cancer. And same thing, apparently, when you're younger. Women who had the most fiber intake during adolescence, 25% lower risk of this potentially precancerous breast disease. But there's fiber in fruits, vegetables, beans, whole grains, nuts, seeds, all plant foods. Did any class of plant foods stick out? Nuts were found to be particularly protective. Two servings a week was associated with a 36% lower risk. But that raises the question, which type of nuts, like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, or do you have to eat true nuts, like almonds, pecans, walnuts, that sort of thing? So just tree nuts or peanuts as well. And the answer is both, compared to those who rarely ate nuts, those eating just one or two handfuls a week during high school appeared to drop risk around 30%. In summary, their study observed significant inverse associations between adolescent dietary intake of fiber and nuts and risk of proliferative benign breast disease. Our results provide supportive evidence of the important role of dietary exposure during a unique period in a women's life in the earlier stage of breast carcinogenesis, the early stage of breast cancer development. These findings, if corroborated, may suggest a viable means for breast cancer prevention.