High-carb diet increases breast cancer risk
OLDER women, who eat a lot of starchy and sweet carbohydrates may be at increased risk of a less common but deadlier form of breast cancer, a new study suggests.
The findings, from a study of nearly 335,000 European women, do not prove that your French fries, sweets and white bread contribute to breast cancer. But they do hint at a potential factor in a little understood form of breast cancer, according to a researcher not involved in the work.
The findings, which appear in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, are based on a long-running European study on nutrition factors and cancer risk.
Specifically, the study found a connection between high “glycemic load” and breast cancers that lack receptors for the female sex hormone estrogen.
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