TRANS-FATS LINKED TO BREAST CANCER RISK

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Poster's Comment: But there are trans-fats in many supplements - magnesium stearate is one. But many people don't seem to realize this and take many supplements everyday. I wonder how much trans-fats that is if one takes 5 suppplements a day, 365 days a year?

Boston Globe, April 12, 2008TRANS-FATS LINKED TO BREAST CANCER RISK

http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_transfats_and_breast_cancer.080412.htm['s introduction: "A high serum level of trans-monounsaturated fatty acids, presumably reflecting a high intake of industrially processed foods, is probably one factor contributing to increased risk of invasive breast cancer in women."]By ReutersWASHINGTON -- Trans-fats, which are being phased out of food because they clog arteries, may raise the risk of getting breast cancer, European researchers reported yesterday.They found that women with the highest blood levels of trans-fats had about twice the risk of breast cancer compared with women with the lowest levels."At this stage, we can only recommend limiting the consumption of processed foods, the source of industrially produced trans-fatty acid," the researchers wrote in the American Journal of Epidemiology.Trans-fats or trans-fatty acids are made in creating artificially hardened fats -- in the process of hydrogenization, for instance.They were, ironically, meant to be healthful replacements for artery- clogging saturated fats such as butter and lard.But the process of making vegetable oil behave like butter made it as unhealthful as butter. New York and California have banned trans-fats in restaurant foods. Canada and Britain have considered it and countless food companies have dropped them as an ingredient.Veronique Chajes of the French national scientific research center at the University of Paris-South and colleagues studied women taking part in a large European cancer trial. They looked at blood samples collected between 1995 and 1998 from 25,000 women who had volunteered to report on their eating and lifestyle habits and then be followed for years to see if they developed cancer.

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As to magnesium stearate, it's not a trans-fat,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium_stearate

If ALL trans-fats are to be avoided, then you need to stop drinking milk

and eating meat. Artificial tran-fats produced by hydrogenation or

otherwise are the problem.

Second, the article below is completely wrong on the issue of butter and

lard, both healthy foods. The medical profit industry has been crying

wolf about saturated fats for a long time when the truth is that studies

about fats that had negative outcomes have always included trans-fats

categorized as saturated fats and tried to make them equivalent.

Trans-fats contribute to disease, natural saturated fats do not. Excess

polyunsaturated fats also contribute to disease which means corn oils

and others are to be avoided.

I recommend the book " Good Calories, Bad Calories " by Taubs which goes

into great detail with extensive research on how saturated fat

misinformation is founded on a house of cards. Saturated fats never

were the problem.

Steve

surpriseshan2@... wrote:

>

>

> Poster's Comment: But there are trans-fats in many supplements -

> magnesium stearate is one. But many people don't seem to realize this

> and take many supplements everyday. I wonder how much trans-fats that is

> if one takes 5 suppplements a day, 365 days a year?

>

> Boston Globe, April 12, 2008

>

> *TRANS-FATS LINKED TO BREAST CANCER RISK*

> ***http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_transfats_and_breast_cancer.080412.htm

> <http://www.precaution.org/lib/08/prn_transfats_and_breast_cancer.080412.htm>*

>

> *['s introduction:* " A high serum level of trans-monounsaturated

> fatty acids, presumably reflecting a high intake of industrially

> processed foods, is probably one factor contributing to increased risk

> of invasive breast cancer in women. " ]

>

> By Reuters

>

> WASHINGTON -- *Trans-fats*, which are being phased out of food because

> they *clog arteries,* may raise the risk of getting breast cancer,

> European researchers reported yesterday

> <http://www.precaution.org/lib/transfats_and_breast_cancer.080601.pdf>.

>

> They found that women with the highest blood levels of trans-fats had

> about twice the risk of breast cancer compared with women with the

> lowest levels.

>

> " At this stage, we can only recommend limiting the consumption of

> processed foods, the source of industrially produced trans-fatty acid, "

> the researchers wrote in the American Journal of Epidemiology

> <http://www.precaution.org/lib/transfats_and_breast_cancer.080601.pdf>.

>

> Trans-fats or trans-fatty acids are made in creating artificially

> hardened fats -- in the process of hydrogenization, for instance.

>

> They were, ironically, meant to be healthful replacements for artery-

> clogging saturated fats such as butter and lard.

>

> But the process of making vegetable oil behave like butter made it as

> unhealthful as butter. New York and California have banned trans-fats in

> restaurant foods. Canada and Britain have considered it and countless

> food companies have dropped them as an ingredient.

>

> Veronique Chajes of the French national scientific research center at

> the University of Paris-South and colleagues studied women taking part

> in a large European cancer trial. They looked at blood samples collected

> between 1995 and 1998 from 25,000 women who had volunteered to report on

> their eating and lifestyle habits and then be followed for years to see

> if they developed cancer.

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