Barbara said:  >There was an article on the front page of
>our local paper just yesterday reporting on the study linking >obesity to
relative risk of developing cancer, and I found it >interesting that the
effect was more striking in women than in >men, and that the types of
cancers are those influenced by >higher ciruculating levels of estrogen

Bathsheba's Breast, the book I mentioned recently, addresses this in  pp.
240-241:  "Throughout human history, women lived marginal lives
economically....Their food tended to be low in fat, since they had access to
relatively little animal fat.  Even the wild game they managed to kill was
grass-fed and very lean.  Obesity was unknown.  But in the last 200 years,
calorie consumption has increased enormously, as have average body weights.
Breast cancer is more common in obese women than in slender women, perhaps
because fatty tissues stimulate estrogen production and alter breast tissue
development."  Elsewhere in the book, the author mentions that estrogen is
stored in the fat, again creating more longterm exposure.

Anna Swisher, MBA, IBCLC
Abundant Blessings
Austin, TX

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