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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (4661)	11/16/2006 12:16:34 PM
From: Richnorth	of 10087

The case for tofu, a source of vegetable proteins! ------------------------------------------------ Red Meat and Breast Cancer Published in the NYT: November 16, 2006 Add another reason for health-conscious young women to shun red meat: it may raise their risk of hormone-fueled breast cancers. Even so, any women who feel they simply must have their steaks or burgers may want to wait for more conclusive confirmation of what for now is a disturbing and plausible observation. The bad news about red meat emerged from a very large and authoritative study of premenopausal nurses by researchers at Harvard medical institutions, published this week in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers followed more than 90,000 women ages 26 to 46 for a dozen years to determine if there was a relationship between the amount of red meat they ate and the development of breast cancer. For breast cancer as a whole, there was not. But for breast cancers whose growth is stimulated by the level of hormones circulating in the body, there was. Women who ate more than one and a half servings of beef, lamb or pork per day had almost double the risk of developing such cancers when compared with women who ate three or fewer servings per week. While previous studies have been inconclusive, this was the first to focus on younger women and to analyze their risk by type of tumor. Why red meat might have this effect is unknown. Researchers suspect several possible culprits: carcinogens found in cooked or processed meat, growth hormones fed to beef cattle, or the type of iron found in red meat. The silver lining — if red meat does indeed increase the risk of breast cancer — is that the cure would be simple: Just eat less meat. nytimes.com

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