For both overweight and normal weight individuals eating foods like fruits, vegetables, red wine, and tea offer protection against colon and rectal cancers.

Writing in the International Journal of Cancer, scientists suggest flavonoids, plant chemicals that eliminate carcinogens, may help ward off cancer.

In the study, researchers estimated flavonoid intake in more than 120,000 men and women, ages 55 to 69, off a survey about their diets.

Scientists discovered after 13 years nearly 1,500 men and over 1,000 women developed colon or rectal cancer.

But participants, both overweight and normal weight, consuming more catechins and flavonols, other flavonoids found in loods like berries, tea, red wine, apples, pears, and other plant foods, had lower risk of cancer.

Via Reuters.

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