Breast cancer risk tied to grandmother’s diet

April 19, 2010 by  
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Breast cancer risk tied to grandmother’s diet
Eating too much fat in pregnancy may be an indulgence that has a less-than-beneficial effect on generations to come, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Their unique study in rats shows that pregnant females 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 …

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