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From: Kathryn Rosenthal 

For Judy.   The full article can be found at the website listed at the bottom of this press release.  
Kath 



Subject: [AMAZON] Study: Animal Fats Linked with Breast Cancer


Study: Animal Fats Linked with Breast Cancer
    [07/16/2003; Reuters News Service]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Young women who eat more red meat and 
full-fat dairy products such as cheese may be raising their 
risk of breast cancer, researchers reported on Tuesday. 

They said their study, published in the Journal of the National
Cancer Institute, provides yet another incentive for women 
to shun fatty foods and consume fresh fruits, vegetables
and whole grains. 

"When we compared the women in the highest fat intake group with
women in lowest intake group, those with the highest intake had
a 33 percent greater risk of invasive breast cancer," Eunyoung
Cho of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
said in a telephone interview. 

Cho said her study was unique because it included women who had
not reached menopause. Breast cancer takes years to develop,
although it usually shows up after menopause, and factors early
in a woman's life may be important. 

Women most at risk of breast cancer obtained, on average, 23 percent
of calories from animal fat, versus 12 percent in the lowest-risk
group. 

Vegetable fats such as olive oil did not affect a woman's risk.
"We found that it was not total fat but certain types of fat
that was related to breast cancer risk," Cho said. 

The study of more than 90,000 women aged 26 to 46 was taken from
the Nurses' Health Study, in which volunteers answer regular
questionnaires about diet and lifestyle and that data is analyzed
by researchers who track the women's health. 

Over the eight years of the study, 714 women developed invasive
breast cancer. 

"Overall, we observed that there was a higher risk of breast cancer
among women who ate foods rich in animal fat such as red meat,
cheese, ice cream and butter during their 20s, 30s and 40s,"
Cho said. 

The full article can be found at:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=4&u=/nm/20030715/hl_nm/health_cancer_fat_dc