Posted on 12/02/2008 11:40:27 PM PST by fightinJAG
ScienceDaily (Dec. 2, 2008) — A stunning discovery based on epigenetics (the inheritance of propensities acquired in the womb) reveals that consuming choline—a nutrient found in eggs and other foods—during pregnancy may significantly affect breast cancer outcomes for a mother's offspring.
This finding by a team of biologists at Boston University is the first to link choline consumption during pregnancy to breast cancer. It also is the first to identify possible choline-related genetic changes that affect breast cancer survival rates.
"We've known for a long time that some agents taken by pregnant women, such as diethylstibesterol, have adverse consequences for their daughters," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal. "But there's an upside. The emerging science of epigenetics has yielded a breakthrough. For the first time, we've learned that we might be able to prevent breast cancer as early as a mother's pregnancy."
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Correlation is not causation.
Agreed. Extremely poorly written title. Maybe the mods can add at the end (slows tumor growth) or somesuch.
Bingo on my above post about lecithin.
Lecithin is phosphated choline. Choline is part of acetycholine, one of the primary brain neurotransmitters.
Here’s that choline stuff! I guess I should eat eggs.
And two dozen doughnuts.
But eating Tofu and beansprouts is just dandy.
/sarc
Until I read the above quote from the article, I thought that moms eating eggs while pregnant meant their daughters were more likely to have breast cancer, when instead, the opposite appears to be true.
This is typical of all news today - they can’t use nouns and verbs to describe what is in a story. Instead they beat around the bush hoping to get the customer to watch the weather, even it the is not full of bad storms or to read 400 words into a 600 story that could be told in two paragraphs of 200 words. They miss the point - tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them the facts, then tell them what you told them. /rant off
I have read that, in the presence of lecithin, cholesterol melts at room temperature. Do you have any idea whether that is true or not?
I agree! Do the eggs have a positive or negative affect on the offspring?
Yep. Make the bottom line your top line when writing articles such as this.
31 years ago when I was pregnant, my midwife told me to think of eggs as big vitamin pills and to make sure I ate two every day.
You're behind the times--we're now cooling off.
Leftists are extremely gullible believing food studies and health claims. They will eat or not eat anything based on what someone wearing a lab coat says, no matter how far fetched.
Oh yea, I can’t keep up with the “climate change”! LOL
Wait a while. It will change again.
True, but if you can reasonably create the correlation (e.g., eat, or at least, don’t avoid eggs while pregnant), without doing or eating something wacky, why not? Then if eggs are the cause of the benefit, great. If they’re simply correlated with the benefit, no problem either.
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