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Western diet ups breast cancer risk among Chinese | Health | Reuters
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maverick99
13 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 16 hours agoPost-menopausal Chinese women who eat a Western-style diet heavy in meat and sweets face a higher risk of breast cancer than their counterparts who stick to a typical Chinese diet loaded with vegetables and soy, a study found.
The researchers, writing on Tuesday in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, tracked about 3,000 women in Shanghai, about half of whom were diagnosed with breast cancer.
Post-menopausal women who ate a Western-style diet -- beef, pork, shrimp, chicken
Tags: breast cancer
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