How does the Mediterranean diet decrease the risk of a variety of cancers?

A number of studies have demonstrated that adherence to a Mediterranean diet (MD) is associated with a significantly reduced risk of various cancers, and the association between nutrition and the maintenance of the state of health in the prevention of numerous diseases, mainly cancer, is increasingly evident among the scientific community. In a recent article Filomeno et al. analyzed the association between endometrial cancer risk and MD, based on a statistical analysis of pooling data from three case–control studies carried out between 1983 and 2006 in various Italian areas and in the Swiss Canton of Vaud…