Originally published September 4 2005
Eating French fries in childhood could lead to later breast cancer, study says
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
A new study on WebMD.com says that eating French fries during childhood could lead to breast cancer later in life.
In a new study, women were more likely to get breast cancer if they had regularly eaten french fries decades earlier as preschoolers.
The report appears in the online edition of the International Journal of Cancer.
It's based on the Nurses' Health Study, a long-term health study of a large group of nurses.
Their mothers were asked how often the nurses had eaten 30 different foods as preschoolers.
* Whole milk was linked to a slightly lower risk of breast cancer, the study shows.
For every extra weekly serving of french fries that the women reportedly ate as preschoolers, their risk of breast cancer as adults rose 27%, write Karin Michels, ScD, PhD, and colleagues.
Michels is an associate professor of epidemiology at Harvard Medical School and Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital.
* The moms were in their 60s, 70s, and 80s when they were interviewed about what their kids ate decades earlier.
"We have to interpret this very cautiously," Michels tells WebMD.
"We really would very much like other studies to confirm our findings before we go out to make public health recommendations."
Michels tells WebMD her study and work by other researchers "points towards a role for early life diet for various chronic diseases, including obesity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and now we're adding cancer -- in particular, breast cancer -- to that list."
"I think this is just one more item that adds to the concern that parents should have about their child's diet," she continues.
"We already have a lot of concerns about children's diets, given the obesity epidemic among children and the other chronic health outcomes."
"There are plenty of reasons to watch children's diets so that they grow into healthy adults and we are not raising a generation of children that then have a variety of chronic diseases, three, four, or five decades down the line."
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