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Red Meat and Breast Cancer

News today that eating a lot of red meat in early adult life may slightly increase the risk of developing breast cancer later, according to a study conducted in the US.

Harvard researchers suggest that replacing red meat with a combination of beans, peas and lentils, poultry, nuts, and fish may reduce the risk of developing breast cancer in younger women.  In the UK however, experts have been more cautious saying that other studies had concluded that there was no link between eating red meat and developing breast cancer.  The link of a diet rich in red meat has more c commonly been linked to the development of bowel cancer. The new data comes from a US study tracking the health of 89,000 women aged 24 to 43.  The advice in general to women hoping to keep themselves healthy is still that they should do their best to maintain a healthy weight, not over do the alcohol consumption and should keep active.  

 In their study the Harvard team analysed the diets of almost 3,000 women who had developed breast cancer.  Eminent epidemiologist at the University of Oxford, Professor Tim Key said that he felt that the US study had only showed a weak link between red meat consumption and the development of breast cancer and was not enough to change existing evidence that had failed to show a link between the two. 

Amanda Thomas

UK Health Radio Medical News Update

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