French study shows that cabbage - a Czech diet staple - may help ward off lung cancer

Researchers at the International Agency for Cancer Research in Lyon, France, have said that adding cruciferous vegetables like cabbage to one's diet can help reduce of lung cancer. The French agency had compared some 2100 lung cancer patients with a similar number of healthy individuals from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and several other Eastern European countries where cabbage is a normal part of the diet. The French study found that eating vegetables from the cabbage family at least once a week cut cancer risk for people with inactive versions of certain genes, which are carried by two out of every three people worldwide.