Breast Cancer: Lowering Your Risk

Hundreds of studies that are confirming what factors have the biggest impact on your risk of breast cancer.  Get the full story by subscribing to Nutrition Action http://cspinet.org/nah/canada.htm. 

1. Avoid Weight Gain.  Experts say that avoiding weight gain, especially in adulthood, is probably the single most important thing woman can do to reduce their risk. 
2. Avoid Taking Hormones.  Studies have shown that taking hormones after menopause can have as much as a 26% increase in breast cancer risk.  The increased risk from taking hormones, though, begins to drop within two or three years of going off the hormones.
3. Get Active.  It is clear that women who are active have a lower risk of breast cancer, and it can also help women who have been diagnosed with breast cancer.  but only for woman who did more than seven hours a week of excercise such as brisk walking. 
4. Minimize Alcohol.  Even a low intake of one drink per day a modest but significant increase in breast cancer. 

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