High Consumption Of Saturated Fats During Teenage Risks Breast Cancer

In a new study it is found those teenage girls are more at risk to have denser breasts who eat high quantity of saturated fats or else low amounts of ideal mono and polyunsaturated fats.

Unsaturated fats are healthier and it is found in nuts, avocados, seeds, and vegetable oil.

Saturated fats are found in meat, cheese, butter, and several other dairy foods.

Lead author of the study, Seungyoun Jung, said appropriate dietary modifications during teen age may reduce possibilities of breast cancer risk and also prvent chronic conditions like diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease.

Jung is also a postdoctoral fellow at University of Maryland. He and his team studied 177 girls between the age group of 10 and 18. All of them were measured breast density via MRI scanning after reaching the age group of 25 to 29 years.

It was found those girls who consumed higher amounts of saturated fats had higher density breast about fifteen years later.

Senior author Dr Joanne Dorgan wrote in a report published in the New York Time, “Whether this will then be related to an increase in breast cancer later in life, we don’t know… But breast density itself is associated with increased risk.”