Unhealthy diet increases the risk of breast cancer

Thursday March 22, 2007 in: Diet and Exercise Tag(s):

Technorati Tags: breast cancer, junk food, high-fat diet

Here's another reason why women should be mindful of what they eat.

Findings from a recent study reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in which 188,736 postmenopausal women reported detailed information on their diet in the mid-1990s say that eating a high-fat diet raises the risk of developing invasive breast cancer.

News.com.au presents the details.

Based on responses to a 124-item "food frequency" questionnaire, researchers found that women who got 40 percent of their calories from fat had about a 15 percent increased risk of developing breast cancer compared with women got 20 percent of their calories from fat.

Using a more precise 24-hour dietary recall questionnaire, "we found a 32-percent increased risk of breast cancer" among women with a high level of fats in their diet, study chief Dr. Anne C. M. Thiebaut from the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland said.

Though the findings seem to point out the matter head on, researchers are still trying to find more evidence that would truly prove the association between dietary fat and the risk of breast cancer.

Two researchers from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston think that rather than focusing in fat intake, controlling body fat is a more effective option in preventing breast cancer.

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