Post-menopausal women: stay away from barbecued and smoked meat. Or at least increase your intake of fruit and vegetables.Why?
Because a new study found that post-menopausal women who ate the most grilled, barbecued, and smoked red meat over a lifetime have a 47 percent higher risk of breast cancer. Those who additionally skimped on fruits and veggies had a 74 percent increase in risk.
Think about this:
These findings don't show cause and effect -- a woman's high-fat diet may be partly to blame -- but they do indicate a close association. And they support current cancer prevention guidelines recommending people eat more plant-based foods and limit processed or red meat consumption.
It's the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that are released at high temperatures when we grill, barbecue, and smoke meat that may create the problem. Poultry and fish, when cooked in the same exact manner, did not increase breast cancer risk. And no connection was found between premenopausal women and the patterns of red meat consumption.
This study is the first to examine lifetime cooked meat consumption and breast cancer risk. Clearly, the findings must be confirmed in other studies of the red meat intake.
1. One more thing surviors have to be aware of. I believe we can blame most cancers on our enviroment, maybe we shoudl all be vegens.
Posted at 5:28PM on May 10th 2007 by ewing