Why high fat intake may be correlated with breast cancer

[Guest guest]

Interesting qoute from Breast Cancer and Iodine by M. Derry, MD,

PhD.

" The vague link between fat intake and breast cancer might be related

to fat removing a micronutrient. One of the ways to measure the number

of double bonds in fat is to measure the amount of iodine 100 grams of

fat would take up. This was called the iodine number or value. The

most unsaturated fat has the highest iodine value. But at the same

time early experiments in the first half of the century showed puppies

fed a high fat diet developed goiters. This suggests dietary fat

removes iodine from the diet. It may be iodine protects double bonds

while they are being transported to the sites where they are needed

such as blood vessels and synaptic membranes of the central nervous

system discussed by Crawford and March. "