Breast cancer risk tied to grandmother's diet
Monday, April 19, 2010 - 15:48
in Health & Medicine
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 of the study will be presented at the AACR 101st Annual Meeting 2010.