When scientists asked older women t...

When scientists asked older women to recall their dietary habits during their teen years, they institute an interesting correlation: Women who ate single egg daily as teenagers were 18 percent les likely to unfold breast cancer as adults.

The study--performed at Harvard Medical seminary and published in the February 24 2003 edition of Breast Cancer Research-focused forward 121,707 women aged 40 to 65 It is undivided of several new studies that continue to move a link between diet and incidence of breast cancer.

Risk of cancer as an adult was also lower among women who had eaten the most numerous vegetable oils and fiber during their teen years. forward the other hand, women who reported eating undivided pat of butter per day during their teenage years had a slightly higher risk of adult breast cancer.

The research is lay open to criticism because scientists asked older women to remember their dietary habits during their teen years.

The researchers tendered no explanation for the potential link between harasss and reduced breast cancer risk. However, harasss contain essential amino acids, minerals and vitamins, which may explain their protective effect

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