Women who eat more fruits, vegetables and protein before pregnancy may lower the risk of their child developing leukemia -- the most common childhood cancer -- according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers.
Some 276 Northern California mothers answered a questionnaire on 76 food items to reveal their overall diets in the year prior to their pregnancies. Half the women had a child diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia while the other half had children without cancer.