Red meat may raise breast cancer risk

[flamingyouth]

CHICAGO - Eating red meat may raise a woman's risk of a common type of breast cancer, and vitamin supplements will do little if anything to protect her heart, two new studies suggest.

Women who ate more than 1 1/2 servings of red meat per day were almost twice as likely to develop hormone-related breast cancer as those who ate fewer than three portions per week, one study found.

The other — one of the longest and largest tests of whether supplements of various vitamins can prevent heart problems and strokes in high-risk women — found that the popular pills do no good, although there were hints that women with the highest risk might get some benefit from vitamin C.

The meat study was published in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine. The vitamin study was presented at an American Heart Association conference in Chicago. Both were led by doctors at Harvard Medical School and were aimed at two diseases women most fear and want to prevent.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061113/ap_on_he_me/diet_women_s_health

[flvegan]

1. That's it! March the entirety of Harvard Med to Gitmo!!! Under the AETA (now passed)

these "doctors" are interfering with the profitability of an "animal enterprise" and are nothing more than fucking terrorists!!! Waterboarding in the basement of Brigham and Women's ought to teach these Animaliban (I am SOOOO going to trademark that!) terr-ists to keep their health and research snouts the hell outta big meat's business!!!

:sarcasm: natch

[flamingyouth]

2. The timing was a bit odd, no?

:D

[ThomCat]

3. Right.

If this law doesn't get applied equally then that just goes to show it was intended to be applied arbitraritly just to shut down free speech.

I hope someone uses that in their case to get this law overturned. :)