Eat three slices of bacon per week would increase the risk of breast cancer

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Michael Labranche

Thursday, 4 January 2018 18:56

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Thursday, January 4, 2018 19:05

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Postmenopausal women who eat about 9 grams of processed meat per week would be five times more likely to develop breast cancer, according to a new study.

This last has been conducted with 260 000 british women of middle age (between 40 and 69 years of age) by researchers from the University of Glasgow. They have also found that the subjects eating less than 9 grams of processed meat per week – that is to say, the equivalent of three slices of bacon or two sausages – were more at risk of 15 % that those that do have not eaten, reports The Independent.

Experts from the university believe that the processed meat could be responsible for thousands of cases of breast cancer each year. By processed meat, it indicates that it is of red meats that have been cured, hardened, fermented, smoked, or modified by other processes.

“If we take the study at the foot of the letter and that it says that there is an association, this means that people who eat less processed meats would be less likely to develop breast cancer,” said Naveed Sattar, a co-author and professor at the University of Glascow.

There would be no similarity in women who have not had their menopause. Researchers have also not found an association between red meat that has not been processed, and the cancer of the breast.