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Sugar in fizzy drinks and snacks INCREASES chances of breast cancer, scientists claim

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A COMMON sugar found in food and drink including Coke, ketchup, cereal bars and biscuits could be driving breast cancer, scientists warn.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scientists believe diets high in sucrose, or sugar, could increase the chances of breast cancer</td></tr>
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The high-sugar Western diet may increase the risk of disease and its spread to the lungs.</div>
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Researchers discovered when mice were given a sucrose-rich diet, similar to our own diet in the West, the mice showed increased levels of tumour growth and metastasis, when the cancer spreads.</div>
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They also found fructose in table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup could be increasing cases of the disease.</div>
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Scientists at the University of Texas MD Anderson Centre gave groups of mice one of four different diets.</div>
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Their research showed at six months old, 30 per cent of those raised on starch-controlled diets had measurable tumours.</div>
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Of those mice which had been raised on a sucrose-enriched diet, 50 to 58 per cent had developed breast cancer.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lab rats were given a high-sugar diet similar to the modern Western diets during the experiment</td></tr>
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The study released in the online edition of the Cancer Research journal, also showed cancers in mice on high sucrose or fructose diet were more likely to spread than those on starch-controlled diets.</div>
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Professor Lorenzo Cohen, who was one of the authors to head up the report, said: "We determined that it was specifically fructose, in table sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, ubiquitous within our food system, which was responsible for facilitating lung metastasis and 12-HETE production in breast tumours."</div>
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Co-author Dr Peiying Yang said that she believed it was the first study to investigate the direct effect of sugar consumption and effect on the development of breast cancer. She added: "We found that sucrose intake in mice comparable to levels of Western diets led to increased tumour growth and metastasis, when compared to a non-sugar starch diet."</div>
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Both authors said that identifying the risk factors for breast cancer was a public health priority.</div>
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Sugar consumption on average in the UK is now 35 kilos.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sucrose is a common type of sugar found in lots of food and drink, including Coke and ketchup</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The rise in obesity, heart disease and cancer worldwide has been blamed on high-sugar diets</td></tr>
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The rise in obesity, heart disease and cancer worldwide has been blamed on the rising amount of sugar rich drinks people are consuming.</div>
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Professor Cohen added: "This study suggests that dietary sucrose or fructose induced 12-LOX and 12-HETE production in breast tumour cells in vivo.</div>
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"This indicates a possible signalling pathway responsible for sugar-promoted tumour growth in mice.</div>
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"How dietary sucrose and fructose induces 12-HETE and whether it has a direct or indirect effect remains in question."</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A new treatment could offer a breakthrough in the battle against dementia</td></tr>
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A NEW treatment could offer a breakthrough in the battle against dementia by boosting a protein that prevents breast cancer.</div>
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The protein is essential to healthy mental function but is depleted by the onset of brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s.</div>
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Scientists have found that mutations to the gene that creates the protein increases the risk of breast cancer.</div>
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Studies show it is crucial in repairing damaged DNA but this is reduced in the brains of people with dementia.</div>
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Scientists are hopeful a revolutionary therapy will now be found. A mutation in the BRCA1 gene that produces the protein can fail to prevent tumours which then spread.</div>
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It increases the risk of breast cancer by up to 80 per cent.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dementia now affects 850,000 people in the UK</td></tr>
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Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, 40, underwent a double mastectomy when she discovered she carried such a defect. </div>
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She inherited the BRCA1 mutation from her mother and had surgery in 2013 after being told she was at very high risk of breast cancer. </div>
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Study author Dr Lennart Mucke, director of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease and a professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, is hopeful that the discovery will lead to a ground-breaking treatment.</div>
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He said: “Therapeutic manipulation of repair factors such as BRCA1 may ultimately be used to prevent neuronal damage and cognitive decline in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.</div>
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“By normalising the levels or function of BRCA1, it may be possible to protect neurons from excessive DNA damage and prevent the many detrimental processes it can set in motion.”</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Star Angelina Jolie has gene defect</td></tr>
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He added: “It’s extremely interesting that one molecule can be involved in two apparently opposing conditions – cancer, in which too many cells are born, and </div>
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neurodegenerative disease, in which too many cells die off.”</div>
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When BRCA1 levels were reduced in mice, researchers saw DNA damage and brain shrinkage. It also caused learning and memory problems.</div>
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In addition, post-mortem analysis of levels of BRCA1 in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients showed it was reduced by 65 to 75 per cent.</div>
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The results were published in the journal Nature Communications.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dementia costs £26billion a year to treat</td></tr>
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            This research suggests a DNA repair process is reduced in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease        </div>
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<span class="s1">There are no current treatments to boost proteins from the BRCA1 gene. But the Gladstone Institute is testing whether increasing its levels can prevent or reverse brain degeneration and memory loss. Dementia now affects 850,000 people in the UK and costs £26billion a year to treat.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">Samia al Qadhi, chief executive of Breast Cancer Care, said: “This is an interesting study, highlighting how a fault in the BRCA1 gene not only greatly increases the risk of developing breast cancer, but could increase the risk of other diseases like Alzheimer’s.” </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Dr Simon Ridley, of Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: “Our cells have sophisticated mechanisms to repair damage to DNA code quickly and accurately.</span></div>
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<span class="s1">“When this process goes </span>awry, as happens in cancer and other diseases, cells become damaged. </div>
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<span class="s1">“This research suggests a DNA repair process is reduced in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease.  </span></div>
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<span class="s1">But it is too soon to conclude that boosting DNA damage repair could improve symptoms.”</span></div>
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SHE will always be known as The Green Goddess but with her classic beauty and effortless charm, Diana Moran is just as much an English rose – and there is undoubtedly something quintessentially British about her approach to health and fitness.</div>
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While Jane Fonda, her contemporary across the pond, was demanding fans “go for the burn”, Diana was the jolly gym mistress of the workout world who got BBC breakfast television viewers in the 80s moving with a more gentle mix of stretches, enthusiasm and encouragement.</div>
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And while she is far too polite for smug comparisons, Diana, 76, makes no secret of the fact that unlike Fonda, 77, she has shunned cosmetic surgery in favour of a basic moisturiser and exercises to keep her face firm and flexible. “I have not had anything done whatsoever,” she says.</div>
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“Would I go under the knife to have cosmetic surgery and Botox? No, never. I have had to have so much surgery in other respects there is no way I would have anything that wasn’t necessary.”</div>
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Four years ago, Diana underwent her third breast reconstruction operation but the surgeries were to save her life, not her looks.</div>
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She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1988 and had a double mastectomy. Only her immediate family and agent knew about the cancer, so she had her first breast reconstruction at the same time as the mastectomy.</div>
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The second came when her body began rejecting the implants and the third because one was beginning to rupture.</div>
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“I realised there was something wrong with the right-hand implant but left it until it was unbearable.”</div>
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This was around the time of the PIP implants scandal but Diana had no idea what kind of implants had been used until after the third reconstruction.</div>
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She recalls: “My surgeon came in to see me as soon as I was waking up from the anaesthetic and said, ‘Diana, have a look at this.’ He had taken a photograph and on one of the sides it said PIP. This time they have given me a certificate showing all the details of what they have put in.”</div>
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Unlike Jane Fonda, Diana has also never struggled with an eating disorder or had the need for hip replacement surgery.</div>
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She says: “Now I can look back and think, ‘Yes, it’s a mistake to do all that high-impact stuff.’ I have now got to the age where I am seeing girlfriends needing hip or knee replacements caused by over-use.</div>
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“But you still see people out on roads, running on that hard surface and looking like death. It makes me think, ‘Don’t do that, it’s not really going to pay off’.”</div>
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Common sense is the cornerstone of Diana’s approach to health and fitness and apart from a passion for prolonged sunbathing when she was younger, it always has been.</div>
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“I am not someone who does diets,” she insists. “I can’t bear all that business with weighing and counting calories, it bores me to tears. Eating well is common sense. You want less of the three Ss: sugar, saturated fats and salt and more of the three Fs: fish, fresh fruit (and vegetables) and fibre.</div>
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</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description">“I eat masses of fruit and vegetables, I love to see a plate full of colourful foods and if you eat a lot of different colours you get a good mix of nutrients. Variety is important.”</section><section class="text-description">However, there is one crucial nutrient that diet alone cannot provide. “I was told that I had osteopenia which many women of my age will have, it is almost part of the ageing process.”</section><section class="text-description">Osteopenia is characterised by lower than normal bone density but is not as severe as full-blown osteoporosis which affects around three million people in the UK.</section><section class="text-description">Diana says: “You can’t stop osteopenia but you can certainly slow it down.”</section><section class="text-description">She has also seen how insidiously it can develop because she had found out the hard way that her bones were in good shape when she was 51.</section><section class="text-description">She explains: “I went ice-skating and had a very heavy fall. Because I have had breast reconstruction I instinctively put my arm out to protect my chest and ended up fracturing my wrist.</section><section class="text-description">“It’s a typical osteoporotic fracture so they gave me a dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scan which showed I had perfectly strong bones.”</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"></section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jane Fonda struggled with an eating disorder and had hip replacement surgery</td></tr>
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</section><section class="text-description"></section><section class="text-description">A year or two later Diana was invited to become president of the newly formed charity Osteoporosis Dorset and the more she learned about the condition, the more she realised she could still be at risk.</section><section class="text-description">Vitamin D is essential for strong bones and for most of her life Diana enjoyed sunbathing.</section><section class="text-description">“In those days people didn’t worry about sunscreens. Let’s be absolutely truthful, I used to have olive oil and vinegar mixed up in a bottle. I had the most mahogany tan.”</section><section class="text-description">When Diana was in her early 60s, the beautician who waxed her legs pointed out a couple of spots which were not healing and further investigation confirmed they were basal cell carcinoma, a form of skin cancer – easy to treat as long as it is caught early.</section><section class="text-description">Her days as a sun-worshipper came to an abrupt halt but what Diana did not realise was that this also put her at increased risk of vitamin D deficiency which is now a common problem in the UK.</section><section class="text-description">We make most of our vitamin D from sunshine but during winter we have to rely on any stores built up over summer. Fortunately because of her involvement with the charity, Diana had regular bone density checks and was able to tackle osteopenia as soon as it was picked up.</section><section class="text-description"> </section><section class="text-description"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</section><section class="text-description"></section><section class="text-description">“I realised what was different was that I wasn’t getting my vitamin D and that’s when I started taking Seven Seas cod liver oil,” she says.</section><section class="text-description">“It’s funny how habits like that come around again. I remember my mum giving me orange juice and cod liver oil.”</section><section class="text-description">However, a survey for Seven Seas cod liver oil reveals that many older Britons are not taking good care of their health and almost half of those questioned admitted their diet is not very healthy.</section><section class="text-description">Half confirmed they regularly skip meals and almost a third said they cared less about their diet than they did when they were younger.</section><section class="text-description">Diana also has her own added ingredient for good health. “I know it’s a glib thing to say but I think a positive outlook makes such a difference.”</section><section class="text-description">? For more information about Seven Seas cod liver oil, visit <span class="skimlinks-unlinked">seven-seas.co.uk</span></section>

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