Grapefruit link to breast cancer

Eating much grapefruit could increase risk of breast cancer in older woman, recent research has found. Eating grapefruit every day could raise the risk of developing breast cancer by almost a third, they say.

The universities of southern California and Hawaii studied more than 50,000 post- menopausal women from five different ethnic groups. Including 1,657 with breast cancer, and found eating just quarter of a grape-fruit daily raised the risk of breast cancer, and found eating  just a quarter of a grapefruit daily raised the rick of breast cancer by up to 30 per cent compared to those who did not eat the fruit at all.

More research will need to be done to see whether grapefruit juice has the same affect

Grapefruit intake affects oestrogen level by inhabiting a molecule involved in oestrogen metabolism, thus allowing more of the hormone to build up

It is well established that oestrogen is associated with breast cancer rick

A Number of other lifestyle factors have been linked to breast cancer risk. Earlier this year, it was revealed that a single alcoholic drink daily may increase a woman risk of developing aggressive forms of breast cancer by nine per cent

 Moderate alcohol consumption is said to increase the risk of breast cancer with wine all to blame, but not red wine

 A major of European study also recently showed that eating junk food raises woman risk of developing a range of cancers

And older women with the fattiest deists have a 15 per dent increase in their chances of developing breast cancer, according to a separate Us study.

Breast cancer now accounts for almost a third of all cancers in women.