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High-fat diet linked to increased breast cancer risk: Newstarget.com
A diet high in fat significantly increases a woman's risk of developing invasive breast cancer, according to a study conducted by researchers at the National Cancer Institute in
In the mid-1990s, the National Institutes of Health-AARP Diet and Health Study collected detailed dietary information from 188,736 postmenopausal women. After approximately four and a half years, researchers checked back with the women to see who had developed breast cancer.
Based on data collected from a 124-item "food frequency" questionnaire, the researchers concluded that women getting more than 40 percent of their calories from fat had a 15 percent higher chance of developing breast cancer than women who got only 20 percent of their calories from fat. Based on data collected from a more precise, 24-hour recall questionnaire, women with high-fat diets actually had a 32 percent higher risk of breast cancer.
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