Eating breakfast cereal may lower the risk of stomach cancer. Research based on more than 4000 people from ten countries, including that the UK’s National Institute of Public health, shows that cereal fibre from grains is protective against the disease.

The men and women in the study were monitored for an average of seven years and during that period those who ate the most fibre cereal were at significantly lower risk. Just how fibre could be protective is not clear but one theory is that it can neutralise carcinogens.

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