A of the present day study by rese...

A of the present day study by researchers at Harvard Medical place of education and Brigham and Women's Hospital finds there is no association between dietary fat consumption and the risk of breast cancer, according to a March 9 1999 pres release from the American Cancer Society. In a 14-year follow-up evaluation of the Nurses' Health research researchers found no evidence that lower intake of fat, including true low fat intake, or lower intake of specific emblems of fat was associated with a decreased risk of breast cancer. The close attention was reported in the March 1 1999 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The influence of fat upon breast cancer risk has received intense application of mind because dietary fat increases breast cancer in animal experiments and because breast cancer incident throughout the world is highly correlated with for capita fat consumption. Epidemiologic studies within disentangleed countries, however, have not consistently establish dietary fat consumption to be a risk factor.

As the inquiry concerns only a specific nutrient and a single cancer, representatives of the American Cancer Society indicate that it is unlikely to change the federal or American Cancer Society dietary guidelines, which make broad recommendations about diet, physical activity, weight, and alcohol consumption, as these affect overall health.

According to the release, there remains great interest in in what manner nutritional factors in childhood and adolescence may contribute to the earlier age of menarche among Western women compared to girls in agrarian tillages such as rural China. Another interesting factor is that, in many countries, breast cancer risk is greater in taller women suggesting that nutrients that influence rapid growing in childhood may affect cancer risk.

According to the American Cancer Society, women can abridge their risk of breast cancer by way of maintaining a healthy body weight after menopause, minimizing alcohol consumption, and having regular mammography examinations.

cogitation Finds No Association Between Dietary Fat Consumption and Risk of Breast Cancer (pres re/ease, Atlanta: American Cancer Society, March 9 1999) 1-2 Available from www.cancer.org/media/story/030999.html. Accessed 15 March 1999

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