Female facebook users color their bras

By Jimmy Downs

If you are an avid news reader, you may have already noticed that thousands of women on Facebook the social network started updating their bra colors on Friday.

Amazingly enough no one knows where this whole game started.  One source said it originated from the U.K. and then got momentum in the U.S. quickly.

Many of the female Facebook users believe this is a good way to raise breast cancer awareness.  But chances are good that this viral phenomenon is just one trick played by the social network to raise the publicity of the website.

According to sphere.com, a message from Facebook may play the part of the chain letters, giving female recipients the following instructions:

"Just write the color of your bra in your status. Just the color, nothing else. And send this on to ONLY girls no men. ... It will be neat to see if this will spread the wings of cancer awareness. It will be fun to see how long it takes before the men will wonder why all the girls have a color in their status."

Breast cancer awareness is a campaign by some organizations that aim to alert women to the risk of the disease in hopes that more women will get annual mammogram screenings which they believe help diagnose the disease at its early stage so doctors can treat it early enough to increase the survival rate.

Studies have shown the screening over-diagnoses breast cancer and can lead to false-negative results causing physical and mental harm to women.  Worse yet, studies showed that this so called preventative screening method cannot improve mortality and can't do much to help patients with advanced breast cancer.

A health observer suggests that women need to learn to follow a diet and lifestyle that reduces risk of breast cancer. 

Dr. Colin T Campbell, Cornell University nutritionists said this is an affluent yet preventable disease.  Reducing intake of certain types of meat, according to some research, may help prevent the illness that is diagnosed in more than 175,000 women a year and kills about 50,000 annually.

What is your bra color, red, white or pink or anything else?  Does your bra color matter?  Do something real to prevent the disease from developing and don't wait for it to develop and then treat it.