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Breast Cancer

Eating habits early in life may affect cancer risk

Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 1st, 2004

Young women who have suffered from anorexia run a lower risk of developing breast cancer, suggesting that calorie intake early in life may play a significant role in development of the disease.

Researchers warned that anorexia is a serious mental disorder with sometimes life-threatening complications and that girls and women should not start starving themselves to avoid breast cancer.

Instead, they said the findings are important because they could shed light on how breast cancer develops.

In the study, young women hospitalized for anorexia were found to be about half as likely to develop breast cancer as women overall. The...

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