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Diabetes, Obesity After 60 May Drive Up Breast Cancer Risk
TUESDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) -- A woman's risk of developing breast cancer appears to rise if she has diabetes or is obese after age 60, a new study indicates.
Previous research has linked obesity and increased breast cancer risk, but "the diabetes link had not been clearly shown," said researcher Dr. Hakan Olsson, a professor of oncology at Lund University in Lund, Sweden.
He is scheduled to present his findings this week at the 2011 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
The diabetes link held even after he accounted for obesity and levels of blood lipids, such as cholesterol. It is an association, however, not proven cause and effect.
A strength of the study, Olsson said, is that it looked at the population as a whole, not only women with breast cancer. He studied the medical records of more than 2,700 patients for up to 10 years before they developed breast cancer and also records for about 20,500 patients who never developed cancer.
Obesity after age 60 boosted breast cancer risk by 55 percent, Olsson said. To put this in perspective, while 15 of 100 obese women, at the most, would get breast cancer, fewer than 10 of 100 women in the general population would be expected to get breast cancer, Olsson explained.
Up to four years after a diabetes diagnosis, women of any age had a 37 percent higher risk of developing breast cancer, he said.
Olsson also found a link between abnormally low levels of blood lipids or fats, mostly cholesterol, and a 25 percent higher risk of breast cancer. Women with higher cholesterol levels had a lower risk, he found.
This puzzling finding needs to be studied more, the researcher noted.
The type of diabetes drug a woman takes also seemed to influence breast cancer risk, Olsson said. Glargine (Lantus) was linked with a nearly doubled risk of breast cancer. However, metformin (Glucophage, Fortamet, others) was linked with a slightly lower risk.
"If a woman has diabetes, she should be aware that certain cancer forms might appear [more often], and one is breast cancer," Olsson said.
Women with diabetes might also ask their doctor which diabetes drug is best for them and will minimize their cancer risk, he said. However, the study numbers were too small to conclude these drugs directly affect cancer risk, he added.
The new finding is the diabetes and cancer link, said Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum, director of women's heart disease at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. But it doesn't surprise her, she said.
"We've known that obesity is associated with breast cancer," she said. "A lot of obese people have diabetes."
The take-home message for women, she said, is that minimizing their breast cancer risk -- now, trying to maintain a healthy weight and avoid diabetes -- will also help their heart health, Steinbaum said.
Olsson will continue the research and explore the lipid level and breast cancer link. Meanwhile, women should watch their weight and aim for a body mass index (BMI) of less than 25, Olsson said. BMI is a calculation based on height and weight. A BMI of 25 or higher is considered overweight, and 30 or over is obese.
Because this research was presented at a medical meeting, the data and conclusions should be viewed as preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed journal.
More information
To learn more about obesity and cancer, visit the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
This Common Food Additive Could up Your Risk for Diabetes
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There are many additives used in the foods you eat. All are supposed to be harmless and safe for human consumption. Today’s health news is about one so called “harmless” food additive: “carrageenan.” Carrageenan is used as a thickening agent. It is processed from seaweed or algae. Food manufacturers often laud the fact that carrageenan is vegetarian unlike another popular thickening agent — gelatin — that is extracted from animal bones.
Carrageenan is often added to milk products. It also crops up in wines and beers, sliced meats, and even toothpaste. But this additive has been shown in a recent clinical trial to cause problems with insulin levels and may up your risk for getting diabetes.
Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago studied the impact of carrageenan on glucose tolerance, insulin sensitivity and insulin signaling in mice. They noted at the outset of the study that carrageenan is known to cause inflammation, which is associated with diabetes.
The mice were given carrageenan in their drinking water, and underwent a glucose tolerance test and an insulin tolerance test. The researchers found that glucose tolerance was significantly impaired in carrageenan-treated mice compared with untreated controls. Baseline insulin levels were also significantly higher following carrageenan treatment. Interestingly, during the insulin tolerance test, glucose levels declined by more than 80% in controls, but not in carrageenan-treated mice.
The researchers say this is the first report of the impact of carrageenan on glucose tolerance and shows that carrageenan impairs glucose tolerance, increases insulin resistance, and inhibits insulin signaling. They suggest that these effects may result from carrageenan-induced inflammation. They concluded by stating directly that carrageenan in the human diet may contribute to the development of diabetes.
If you are struggling with your blood sugar, or just want to make sure that diabetes is never a health concern for you, you may want to watch your intake of carrageenan.
For more information on food additives and how they could be affecting your health, read Migraine Sufferers Should Avoid Eating These.
Tags: inflammation, migraines, prevent diabetes
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The Mineral That Lowers the Risk of Diabetes
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Many women are now turning to natural food therapy to ease the symptoms of unbalanced blood sugar. High blood sugar has been shown to increase your risk for diabetes as well as other serious conditions.
If you’re an older woman, you may want to jump on the bandwagon and try following a blood-sugar-balanced diet. It may take some time to notice a difference in how you feel, but you won’t need to be concerned about risks and side effects of prescription drugs and the looming presence of diabetes, which is now afflicting so many older adults.
One of the most important vitamins when it comes to maintaining balanced blood sugar is zinc. You’ll want to make sure that you are getting enough of this mineral every day.
A study performed at the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, investigated the intake of zinc in relation to the risk of type 2 diabetes in women. The researchers evaluated dietary intakes of zinc in a large cohort of women.
During follow-up, 6,030 cases of type 2 diabetes were reported. After adjustment of lifestyle and dietary risk factors, the research team calculated the relative risks of type 2 diabetes. They compared the highest intakes and lowest intakes for dietary zinc from food sources. They found that a higher zinc intake was associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes in the women.
Not only could zinc help prevent diabetes, but it could also help with hormonal imbalances and fibrosis conditions (read the article Boost Your Immune System with Zinc).This is because it plays an important role in hormone production. Zinc helps to increase progesterone levels and lower estrogen.
As you age (if you’re a woman), you may undergo dietary or hormonal changes that could affect your zinc status. For example, excess estrogen can lower serum zinc levels and women who are estrogen dominant or using estrogen replacement therapy should check to be sure their zinc intake is adequate.
The best food sources of zinc are: Brazil nuts; pumpkin seeds; chickpeas; almonds; free- range eggs; chicken; turkey; beef; lamb; wheat germ;, shellfish; and oysters.
Tags: blood sugar, Diabetes, natural foods, prescription side effects
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There's something that you should know about the vitamins you're taking.
Something that is so controversial and upsetting, that it could very well change the entire landscape of the vitamin industry.
More importantly, it may also be affecting you personally if you're currently taking supplements.
What you could be mixing with your vitamins might actually be making you sick.
Dr. David Juan is regarded by many to be an authority on nutrition and supplements.
He's been a practicing medical doctor for over 30 years. And when it comes to the dangerous interactions of foods, drugs and vitamins, he's got the qualifications to back up what he's talking about.
And that's why he urgently needs to warn you about a new danger resulting from vitamin, food and drug interactions that have already harmed others...
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Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Does Menopause Increase Risk of Diabetes?
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It is an idea that has been hinted at for some time, and its answer is important for all middle-aged women. Does menopause influence one’s risk for type 2 diabetes? With the latest health news, it’s time to don a smile, because researchers found the answer to be “no.”
Postmenopausal women had no higher risk for diabetes whether they experienced natural menopause or had their ovaries removed, according to the national clinical trial of 1,237 women at high risk for diabetes, ages 40 to 65.
In other words, menopause had no additional effect on risk for diabetes. Menopause remains one of many small steps in aging and it doesn’t mean women’s health will be worse after going through this transition. The results are published in the August issue of “Menopause.”
The findings also shed light on the impact of diet and exercise and hormone replacement therapy on the health of postmenopausal women. Previous studies had shown that menopause could speed the progression to diabetes because of the higher levels of testosterone. All the women in the study had “glucose intolerance,” meaning their bodies struggled to process blood sugar into energy.
The researchers have shown that lifestyle interventions can help prevent diabetes in those with glucose intolerance. These interventions work well in women who have gone through menopause.
According to the new study, for every year 100 women observed, 11.8 premenopausal women developed diabetes, compared to 10.5 among women in natural menopause and 12.9 cases among women who had their ovaries removed.
But — for those who had their ovaries removed and engaged in lifestyle changes, the rate of diabetes plummeted to 1.1. Those changes included losing seven percent of their body weight (that would be 12.6 pounds for a 180-pound woman) and exercising for at least 150 minutes a week.
They found these results surprising, as the women had gone on hormone replacement therapy, which many fear escalates the risk for many health issues. The message to take away from this is that lifestyle changes to shed pounds could reduce your risk of developing diabetes.
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FOODS YOU SHOULD NEVER MIX WITH THESE
POPULAR SUPPLEMENTS...
There's something that you should know about the vitamins you're taking.
Something that is so controversial and upsetting, that it could very well change the entire landscape of the vitamin industry.
More importantly, it may also be affecting you personally if you're currently taking supplements.
What you could be mixing with your vitamins might actually be making you sick.
Dr. David Juan is regarded by many to be an authority on nutrition and supplements.
He's been a practicing medical doctor for over 30 years. And when it comes to the dangerous interactions of foods, drugs and vitamins, he's got the qualifications to back up what he's talking about.
And that's why he urgently needs to warn you about a new danger resulting from vitamin, food and drug interactions that have already harmed others...
Click Here to See The Foods You Should NeverMix With These Popular Supplements
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