Ladies here's another reason to hold off on that second burger  and it  has more to do with developing breast cancer than just gaining weight.  Researchers from Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School  say that eating  red meat twice a day  could  double the chances  of  women  developing breast cancer.

In an article on Web MD, Red Meat May Up Breast Cancer Risk,  researcher Eunyoung Cho, ScD,  says  'It may be that diet in early  adulthood has a stronger impact on [breast cancer] risk than diet later in life. But we can't say that from this study.'

That's because  the women  in the study  who consumed  more  than one-and-a-half servings a day were  found to be 97% more at risk of developing the most common hormones linked to breast cancer, compared to those women who ate less red meat.

So far the latest findings apply to premenopausal women but researchers say  its likely the results will be the same as women get older. The ongoing study will track the participants as they age  to confirm this.  

And as for your waistline,  these findings do not take away from what some say is a constant factor in developing breast cancer.

'Being overweight is strongly associated with breast cancer risk. This has been shown in study after study,' says American Cancer Society nutritional epidemiologist Marji McCullough, ScD, RD.

To read the entire article go to:

http://www.webmd.com/content/article/129/117497.htm