Women who eat a high-fat diet could be increasing their risk of developing breast cancer later in life, according to new research.
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A recent study of more than 13,000 women indicated that women who ate more than 90 grams of fat a day were twice as likely to develop cancer than women who ate 40 grams or less, reported BBC News Online.
The researchers, writing in the Lancet medical journal, said that research methods in many previous studies may have obscured a possible link between fat and breast cancer.
Researchers at the Medical Research Council’s Dunn Human Nutrition Unit in Cambridge studied the food diaries of more than 13,000 women.
“The study shows there is an emerging link between eating too much fatty food and increasing the risk of breast cancer,” Dr Sheila Bingham, the unit’s deputy director, was quoted by the BBC as saying.
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By GlobalData“The effect seems to be related particularly to saturated fat found mostly in high fat milk, butter, meat and some cereals such as biscuits and cakes.”
