Reduced fat intake cuts invasive breast cancer risk

Dayal HH and Kalia A from UNTHSC School of Public Health in Fort Worth, Texas published an article in the March 19, 2010 issue of Breast saying that reduced intake of dietary fat can prevent invasive breast cancers in post-menopausal women in the United States.

The authors say that The Diet Modification trial of the Women's Health Initiative studies suggest as reported that reducing the fat intake does not reduce the risk of breast cancer. They recalculated the data and found that an average adherence to a simple diet modification can translate into avoiding 7.3 percent invasive breast cancers in post-menopausal women.

Dayal and Kalia found that the trial actually also demonstrated a dose response correlation between diet modification and risk reduction meaning that higher adherence to the diet modification resulted in high reduction in the risk of breast cancer.

They say the diet modification trial findings were reported and interpreted in a way the public may have an impression that diet modification does not work to lower the breast cancer risk, leading to loss of a valuable opportunity to affect public health policy.

source: foodconsumer