Your worry-free guide to suspicious lumps and bumps

—Brenda Kearns

Thanks to normal hormone changes that affect tissue growth, we’re three times more likely than men are to find odd (sometimes worrying!) lumps on our bodies. Luckily, it is possible to dramatically reduce your risk of ever getting one by: • Preventing breast lumps withfish “Most breast lumps are fluid-filled cysts, or fibroadenomas, lumps of noncancerous breast tissue,” says Yale University School of Medicine obstetrician-gynecologist Mary Jane Minkin, M.D. To avoid them, eat 24 oz. of fish weekly. Japanese researchers say that the iodine in fish nourishes and protects breast cells, helping them grow normally, even when levels of breast-irritating estrogens are high. Already have one? Nine in 10 breast lumps are completely harmless! To put your mind at ease, though, talk to your doctor, then take 3,000 IU of vitamin D daily.…

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Woman's World (Digital) - 1 Issue, May 30, 2016

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