Studies show that a low-fat diet, maintaining a moderate weight and limiting alcohol consumption to two drinks or fewer per week decrease the risk of breast cancer.

Data from the Framingham Heart Study on over 2,000 women showed that those who were obese, with the greatest percentage of their fat located on the back and belly, had a 72 to 100 percent greater chance of developing breast cancer. For this reason, women with high levels of torso fat should make extra effort to lose weight.

According to a study that appeared in “The Lancet”, a British medical journal, the older a woman is at the time of her final pregnancy, the greater the chances of getting breast cancer. In fact, women who gave birth after turning 40 had two times the breast cancer rate as those who had all of their children by the time they turned 30.