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# Physical activity, diet linked to ovarian cancer risk
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/physical_activity_diet_ovarian_cancer_risk_1226150119/
- Published: 2015-12-25T14:17:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T15:45:07.000Z
- Description: Comparing 578 ovarian cancer cases with 7,188 controls, researchers tied vegetables to up to 20% and dairy foods to up to 40% lower risk, meat to up to 60% higher risk, and more than 160 minutes of weekly activity to 60% lower risk than 30 minutes or less.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Cancer, Avoiding Illness, #vivvo-import

Friday Dec 26, 2015 (foodconsumer.org) -- A study suggests that eating vegetables and dairy products reduces the risk of ovarian cancer while eating meat may increase the risk.

The study of 578 ovarian cancer cases and 7188 non-cancer controls shows that consumption of vegetables and dairy foods was associated with up to 20% and 40% reduced risk for ovarian cancer respectively while eating meat was correlated with up to 60% increased risk of ovarian cancer.

The study also finds that being physically active in more than 160 minutes per week was linked to 60% reduced risk for ovarian cancer, compared to those who was active for 30 minutes or less per week.

Physical activity has been associated with reduced risk for a variety of cancers. (David Liu)

Reference

[*Teresa A. Lehman, Ramakrishna V. Modali, Luke Ratnasinghe. Physical activity, diet and ovarian cancer risk. \[abstract\]. In: Proceedings of the 106th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research; 2015 Apr 18-22; Philadelphia, PA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2015;75(15 Suppl):Abstract nr 870\. doi:10.1158/1538-7445.AM2015-870*](http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/75/15%5FSupplement/870.short?ref=foodconsumer.org)