TRANS-FATS LINKED TO BREAST CANCER RISK

[Guest guest]

Poster's Comment: But there are trans-fats in many supplements - magnesium

stearate is one. But many people don't seem to realize this and take many

supplements everyday. I wonder how much trans-fats that is if one takes 5

suppplements a day, 365 days a year?

 

Boston Globe, April 12, 2008

 

TRANS-FATS LINKED TO BREAST CANCER RISK

_http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_transfats_and_breast_cancer.080412.htm_

(http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_transfats_and_breast_cancer.080412.htm)

 

[Rachel's introduction: " A high serum level of trans-monounsaturated fatty

acids, presumably reflecting a high intake of industrially processed foods, is

probably one factor contributing to increased risk of invasive breast cancer

in women. " ]

 

By Reuters

 

WASHINGTON -- Trans-fats, which are being phased out of food because they

clog arteries, may raise the risk of getting breast cancer, European

researchers _reported yesterday_

(http://www.precaution.org/lib/transfats_and_breast_cancer.080601.pdf) .

 

They found that women with the highest blood levels of trans-fats had about

twice the risk of breast cancer compared with women with the lowest levels.

 

" At this stage, we can only recommend limiting the consumption of processed

foods, the source of industrially produced trans-fatty acid, " the researchers

wrote in the _American Journal of Epidemiology_

(http://www.precaution.org/lib/transfats_and_breast_cancer.080601.pdf) .

 

Trans-fats or trans-fatty acids are made in creating artificially hardened

fats -- in the process of hydrogenization, for instance.

 

They were, ironically, meant to be healthful replacements for artery-

clogging saturated fats such as butter and lard.

 

But the process of making vegetable oil behave like butter made it as

unhealthful as butter. New York and California have banned trans-fats in

restaurant

foods. Canada and Britain have considered it and countless food companies

have dropped them as an ingredient.

 

Veronique Chajes of the French national scientific research center at the

University of Paris-South and colleagues studied women taking part in a large

European cancer trial. They looked at blood samples collected between 1995 and

1998 from 25,000 women who had volunteered to report on their eating and

lifestyle habits and then be followed for years to see if they developed

cancer.