It’s true.

Women with early-stage breast cancer may cut their risk of dying by 50% — just by eating a healthy diet and exercising regularly.

It doesn’t matter if you’re thin or obese.

But you have to do it right.

In the June 10th issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, published the surprising results of their 10-year study.

They followed 1490 women with an average age of 50 who had early-stage breast cancer.

The researchers didn’t tell the women what to eat or how much to exercise. Instead, the researchers interviewed the women about their habits and analyzed their findings.

Whether thin or obese, the women who were both physically active AND ate a healthy diet had a mortality rate of just 7%. That was half the almost 14% death rate for the rest of the patients in the study.

The women with the lowest risk of dying ate at least 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day AND exercised six days a week. Their exercise level was the equivalent of walking briskly for 30 minutes a day.

This effect was not seen in women who engaged in only one of these behaviors — eating healthy OR exercising regularly.

The key was to do both.

And the best part is, the only potential side effect of this cancer treatment was better health.