Typical Western Diet Increases Breast Cancer Risk

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A new study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention has found that post-menopausal Chinese women who eat a Western diet loaded with meat, dairy products, and sugar have a 60 percent higher risk of breast cancer than women who eat a traditional Chinese diet heavy in vegetables and soy.

The Western diet raised the risk especially high for estrogen-receptor positive tumors, raising the risk of developing this kind of breast cancer by 90 percent.

The same increased risks were not found for pre-menopausal women eating a typical Western diet.

Marilyn Tseng of the Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia said: "Most studies have tended to look at single dietary factors. And what was unique about this study is that we tried to describe patterns of intake -- foods that go together, that seem to occur together in the diet."

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