Grandma's High-Fat Diet Increases Breast Cancer Risk?
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 17:56
in Health & Medicine
Researchers say they have found another potential risk factor for breast cancer--Grandmas. Georgetown University scientists say that pregnant rats that ate a high fat diet not only increased breast cancer risk in their female daughters but also in that daughter's offspring – the "granddaughters." Details of the study will be presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2010. Why the risk is passed on through two generations is unknown, but experts believe it occurs through as-yet unknown "epigenetic" changes that result in an increase in terminal end buds in the breast tissue – an increase that apparently can then be passed on through generations. read more