OT - Girls who grow tall and thin face highest risk of breast cancer

[Guest guest]

Another scare story... What it boils down to is that they just haven't a

clue!

Love, light and peace,

Sue, mum to a 4'4 " , very slim 7yo who doesn't drink milk!!!

" Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make

them all yourself. " - Luther

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http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=571941

Girls who grow tall and thin face highest risk of breast cancer

By nce Health Editor

14 October 2004

Tall, thin teenage girls who put on a growth spurt at puberty are at highest

risk of breast cancer - and milk may be the culprit, researchers suggest

today.

Their shorter, chubbier sisters are at lower risk and remain so throughout

their adult lives until they reach the menopause.

The findings from a large Danish study of more than 117,000 women confirm

that height is a risk factor for breast cancer and show that it is growth in

childhood that has the greatest influence.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could help

explain one of the greatest puzzles of breast cancer - why the disease has

seen a global increase over the past 50 years.

The answer may be that it is linked to the global increase in average

heights, driven by changing diets. And the journal calls for more research

into one possible dietary factor behind both trends: the consumption of

milk.

An increase in milk drinking has been suggested as a factor behind the large

increase in average heights in Japan. As the Japanese adopted a more Western

diet in the two decades after the Second World War, 12-year-old girls gained

15cm in height on average.

That gain has been paralleled 30 years later by an increase in breast cancer

in the same generation of women; the incidence has doubled from 40 to 80

cases per 100,000 of population. Writing in the journal, Karin Michels and

Walter Willett of Harvard Medical School, Boston, said that milk may play an

important role because it contains animal protein and a high level of

anabolic hormones. " Recent findings have confirmed that milk consumption

does increase the circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 and is

associated with higher stature. The task of understanding how these and

other factors are related to childhood growth and to the risk of breast

cancer will not be an easy task but it is one that deserves serious

attention, " they said.

The Danish study, from the Epidemiology Science Centre in Copenhagen, shows

that the speed of growth between the ages of eight and 14 has the greatest

influence on the risk of breast cancer in adult life.

The findings show that those whose peak year of growth occurred between the

ages of 13 and 14 had a 16 per cent lower risk of breast cancer than those

whose peak growth occurred earlier, between 10 and 11. Girls who were

tallest by the age of 14 had the highest risk.

The researchers also found that girls who were overweight at puberty had a

lower risk of breast cancer. Understanding the biological mechanisms

underlying these changes will be crucial to preventing breast cancer, the

researchers said. The findings, together with other research, suggest that

the breast may be vulnerable to carcinogenic influences during rapid growth

at puberty.

The researchers said that calculating the best body build to avoid breast

cancer was complex. " One would want to be born light, to grow slowly but

steadily into a stubby, short child and to maintain one's fat mass until one

reached menopause, at which point one would want to shed the excess pounds

immediately, " they said.

[Guest guest]

Regarding the clip below. Good grief----- can you hear me laughing, my

listmates in Europe and beyond, all the way across the ocean?? This

research is funded I guess to divert attention away from all the

environmental toxics that we are being subjected to " without our consent. "

We are all particpating in a huge worldwide chemistry experiment. On the

other hand, since I am the shortest one in my family and have been a little

chubby throughout my 40 years, I guess I should be feeling reassured. Hah!

I guess it could be that us chubby ones are able to store the toxics away in

our fat where less damage is done. Guess I will give up trying to lose this

20 pounds (pretty much have anyway).

The researchers said that calculating the best body build to avoid breast

cancer was complex. " One would want to be born light, to grow slowly but

steadily into a stubby, short child and to maintain one's fat mass until one

reached menopause, at which point one would want to shed the excess pounds

immediately, " they said.

OT - Girls who grow tall and thin face highest risk

of breast cancer

>

> Another scare story... What it boils down to is that they just haven't a

> clue!

>

> Love, light and peace,

>

> Sue, mum to a 4'4 " , very slim 7yo who doesn't drink milk!!!

>

> " Learn from the mistakes of others--you can never live long enough to make

> them all yourself. " - Luther

>

> ------------------------------------------------

>

> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/story.jsp?story=571941

>

> Girls who grow tall and thin face highest risk of breast cancer

> By nce Health Editor

> 14 October 2004

>

>

> Tall, thin teenage girls who put on a growth spurt at puberty are at

highest

> risk of breast cancer - and milk may be the culprit, researchers suggest

> today.

>

> Their shorter, chubbier sisters are at lower risk and remain so throughout

> their adult lives until they reach the menopause.

>

> The findings from a large Danish study of more than 117,000 women confirm

> that height is a risk factor for breast cancer and show that it is growth

in

> childhood that has the greatest influence.

>

> The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, could help

> explain one of the greatest puzzles of breast cancer - why the disease has

> seen a global increase over the past 50 years.

>

> The answer may be that it is linked to the global increase in average

> heights, driven by changing diets. And the journal calls for more research

> into one possible dietary factor behind both trends: the consumption of

> milk.

>

> An increase in milk drinking has been suggested as a factor behind the

large

> increase in average heights in Japan. As the Japanese adopted a more

Western

> diet in the two decades after the Second World War, 12-year-old girls

gained

> 15cm in height on average.

>

> That gain has been paralleled 30 years later by an increase in breast

cancer

> in the same generation of women; the incidence has doubled from 40 to 80

> cases per 100,000 of population. Writing in the journal, Karin Michels and

> Walter Willett of Harvard Medical School, Boston, said that milk may play

an

> important role because it contains animal protein and a high level of

> anabolic hormones. " Recent findings have confirmed that milk consumption

> does increase the circulating levels of insulin-like growth factor 1 and

is

> associated with higher stature. The task of understanding how these and

> other factors are related to childhood growth and to the risk of breast

> cancer will not be an easy task but it is one that deserves serious

> attention, " they said.

>

> The Danish study, from the Epidemiology Science Centre in Copenhagen,

shows

> that the speed of growth between the ages of eight and 14 has the greatest

> influence on the risk of breast cancer in adult life.

>

> The findings show that those whose peak year of growth occurred between

the

> ages of 13 and 14 had a 16 per cent lower risk of breast cancer than those

> whose peak growth occurred earlier, between 10 and 11. Girls who were

> tallest by the age of 14 had the highest risk.

>

> The researchers also found that girls who were overweight at puberty had a

> lower risk of breast cancer. Understanding the biological mechanisms

> underlying these changes will be crucial to preventing breast cancer, the

> researchers said. The findings, together with other research, suggest that

> the breast may be vulnerable to carcinogenic influences during rapid

growth

> at puberty.

>

> The researchers said that calculating the best body build to avoid breast

> cancer was complex. " One would want to be born light, to grow slowly but

> steadily into a stubby, short child and to maintain one's fat mass until

one

> reached menopause, at which point one would want to shed the excess pounds

> immediately, " they said.

>

>

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Although i dont drink milk, and think it has problems, i probably

would think that statement unlikely to expalin things, and how

pointless is it to talk of the best body to have? like we have much

choice in our genes.

Heights have been rising for more than 50 years as have diets

changing. Higher risk doesn't mean that's even why you get it at

all.

You'd need a whole page for carcenogen causing materials. They

haven't much of a clue how to stop it, whats causing it, but that

doesnt stop them talking about they're wonderful findings.

We've just found out our new house is in a radon area so I'm not

impressed with that really. :|

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In Vaccinations , " Mum2mishka " <mum2mishka@t...>

wrote:

> Another scare story... What it boils down to is that they just

haven't a

> clue!