Oh please! Increased skirt size:increased chance or breast cancer

grumppa the idea that too much exercise causes tooth decay is false, but does have its origins in truth.
A colleague attended the athletes at the London Olympics two years ago.
Many of the ones he saw had high levels of decay and erosion, not as a direct result of the exercise, but because of the energy drinks they consume, and other dietary factors.

Here is the link to what the research actually did and said

www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29351249

All the research is saying is that if you put on weight as you get older you increase your risk of breast cancer, if you put it on very quickly, the risk increases even more.

All this research team have done is 1) repeat what we already know and 2) tried to put it in terms that will attract peoples attention and perhaps make them more aware of the dangers of weight gain.

We do not have to die of something. DM just died quietly in her sleep one night, I think the cause was given as heart attack but essentially all that happened was that sometime during the night her heart stopped beating. She didn't have any medical condition that was overtly fatal. Just some minor problems that nobody dies of.

Well, I suppose we have to die of something - we'd look pretty silly lying in a hospital bed dying of nothing.

Read somewhere else today that too much exercise causes tooth decay. So that's all right then.

The correlation between waist measurement and height brings it home to me that I am not overweight, I am under-talll

I do not think it was a just a correlation. The investigation was of women with breast cancer rather than a measurement of women and a counting of women with breast cancer and they did include provisos that much of the information was based on the respondent's memories of their size and weight up to 40 years previously.

But the connection between high body fat, increased post-menopausal production of oestrogen and breast cancer has been known for a long time

When I had breast cancer I was size 12, exercised regularly and only drank a glass of wine on very rare occasions. My closest friend died of breast cancer and she would regularly complain that size 10 jeans were too big for her!

stick thin not stick think obviously!

I have had a couple of friends who have died from breast cancer Both were slim, non-drinkers. There was also a 'shock horror' type headline in the week stating that you don't need to be overweight to get diabetes. Really? My DH is stick think and has diabetes. Tell us something we don't know.

Isn't this the same as a week or so ago when they said that your waist should be less than half your height?

It is sad but perhaps the intention is good? There is so much obesity with all the health issues it involves that maybe the message has to be pushed?

I read a mag at the dentist last week which seemed to be referring to a close friend of mine. Not enough Vit D, not enough exercise, overweight makes her more likely to get Type 2 Diabetes, osteoporosis and cancer. She has the first two

I agree, although some the possible indicators for BC are being over weight, drinking too much etc - the usual indicators for many illnesses. The skirt size indicator, refers to increased girth, I suppose, and that is an indicator in itself for possible heart problems.

The word omitted by the media is "possible". What you say is true, Gracesgran - correlation does not imply causation!