{"id":2140,"date":"2014-06-26T22:00:36","date_gmt":"2014-06-27T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2140"},"modified":"2014-06-27T14:58:16","modified_gmt":"2014-06-27T19:58:16","slug":"sugar-intake-linked-to-breast-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/sugar-intake-linked-to-breast-density\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar intake linked to breast density<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-115\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english3.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english3\" width=\"300\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study links a high intake of sugar to an increase in breast density, which is one of the indicators of breast cancer risk.\u00a0<\/span>The study tracked 776 premenopausal and 779 postmenopausal women from two mammographic screening clinics in Quebec City.<\/p>\n<p>While none of the participants had a very high sugar intake, those who reported consuming a more than three servings of sugar-sweetened beverages in a week had a 3% increase in density compared to those who did not consume this type of beverage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biomedcentral.com\/1471-2458\/14\/554\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>BMC Public Health\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>June 26, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Caroline Diorio, Universit\u00e9 Laval, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study links a high intake of sugar to an increase in breast density, which is one of the indicators of breast cancer risk.\u00a0The study tracked 776 premenopausal and 779 postmenopausal women from two mammographic screening clinics in Quebec City. While none of the participants had a very high sugar intake, those who reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[49,51,53,476,849,1841,1840],"class_list":["post-2140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-cancer","tag-health","tag-medicine","tag-public-health","tag-quebec-en","tag-sugar","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-yw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2153,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2140\/revisions\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}