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RELATION BETWEEN DAIRY CONSUMTION AND FEMALE HEIGHT GROWTH – (03-08-10)

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Dairy Consumption and Female Height Growth

Dairy is good from strong bones and teeth? That’s what the commercials would have you believe (although the evidence does not suggest this). This study seems to support this at least as far as making you taller. The fine print, however, is not in the commercials. Faster growth is potentially a risk factor for breast cancer. After all, what is the function of cow’s milk? It’s to rapidly grow a calf to a heffer, right?

As a society we have been so programmed that milk is good for us that no one steps back to see just how weird it really is. Take this for comparison….at what age does it become uncomfortable for a human to stop nursing from its mother? 6 months? 2 years? How about 18? 35? Seems weird, huh? Well, not if the source of that mother’s milk is dairy.

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TEA CONSUMPTION AND RISK OF BREAST CANCER – (08-17-09)

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Tea Consumption and Risk of Breast Cancer

For those of you doing the math, in just these few studies we’ve pretty much wiped breast cancer risk off the face of the planet with just a small handful of the hundreds of known lifestyle factors that influence breast cancer risk. Here tea led to a 37% reduced risk of breast cancer in younger women drinking 3 or more cups per day. Consider this–everyone seems to have this idea that we need to lug a plastic BPA laden bottle of water around with us everywhere we go because we’ve been told by “them” that it’s good for us.

Good luck finding any studies to support this concept. What we DO find is studies linking the BPA in plastic water bottles to diabetes, cancer and birth defects. Switch to tea. Period.

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RISK OF POSTMENOPAUSAL BREAST CANCER – (08-17-09)

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Urinary Melatonin Levels and Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Risk

Hate to sound like a broken record, but if ANYONE out there thinks that cancer risk is in our genes and we have no control over it….that absolutely, positively, without a doubt flies in the face of hundreds of studies confirming a large degree of control over our risk of cancer and the outcomes of cancer diagnosis.

In this particular study, we found higher levels of melatonin (a hormone produces deep in the brain to help settle us into sleep when the sun goes down) led to a 38% reduced risk of breast cancer. That means that good daylight sun exposure and getting your body to sleep WITHOUT the use of drugs, as well as NOT working a graveyard shift can all help avoid breast cancer.

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PROGNOSIS OF POSTMENOPAUSAL BREAST CANCER PATIENTS – (08-17-09)

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Plasma Retinol and Prognosis of Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Patients

AGAIN…lifestyle including a diet high in both Vitamin A and beta carotene in women with breast cancer can lead to a massive improvement in prognosis–those with the lowest levels had double the risk of mortality (all women) or a 3.58 times the risk of mortality (those over 55).

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BREAST CANCER INCIDENCE AFTER HORMONAL INFERTILITY TREATMENT – (08-17-09)

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Breast cancer incidence after hormonal infertility treatment in Sweden

Regular readers of updates know how strongly I am against infertility treatment in all but a few cases. Almost all cases of infertility can be managed with aggressive, safe lifestyle changes. If a couple (yes–you men are to blame as well because YOUR health plays a role in fertility as well) is NOT willing to make the hard decisions to clean up their lifestyles to have a healthy child the way Mother Nature intended, maybe, just maybe…they’re not ready.

Hard statements, but looking at the health risks these babies have (prematurity, increased rates of CVD and diabetes….) it needs to be said. Now, if that wasn’t bad enough, we see some pretty massive increases in the rates of breast cancer in these women treated with clomid to force fertility. Breast cancer is already likely in this group, since being pre-diabetic is a strong cause of infertility. Use of fertility agents led to a double or tripling of the risk for breast cancer.

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BREAST CANCERS DETECTED BY SCREENING MAMMOGRAPHY (08-17-09)

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The Natural History of Invasive Breast Cancers Detected by Screening Mammography

When most of the population is asked about “prevention” of breast cancer, mammography comes to mind. Few things get me as frustrated as this reply.

I remember volunteering at a national 3-day event. I was treating an 18 yr old walker and asked why she was walking. Her mother had passed away from breast cancer at a very young ago, so I naturally asked her what she was doing from a preventative standpoint to lower her risk. She replied “They won’t let me do anything until I’m at least 40.” It was all I could do to keep from screaming in frustration. So, we put all our eggs in the “early detection” basket and call it prevention. Well, unfortunately for this approach, there is much controversy about whether it actually does any good.

Here we see a study finding that there are significant harms, suggesting that up to 22% of the cancers found on mammography may have spontaneous remitted, leading to aggressive, damaging treatments that were never needed.

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WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF CHILDHOOD SOY INTAKE?

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Childhood Soy Intake and Breast Cancer Risk in Asian American Women

For some odd reason, soy has truly been demonized in this country.  We think it will grow breast on your boys and give women breast cancer in a week.  The evidence is overwhelmingly saying the opposite.

This article not only supports soy, but again reinforces the idea that things we do to ourselves in childhood will have long reaching effects later in life.  Look at these results–a whopping 60% lower risk of breast cancer!!  It is likely that soy intake in childhood sets up the guy flora to properly metabolize the flavonoids in soy to their equol products.

I do have to clarify that I am NOT a fan of processed soy products (tofu burgers, hot dogs, sausages, etc…) but in favor of things like tofu, soy milk or edamame.

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