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# Breast cancer news: Breast cancer linked to high meat and high fat diet
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/breast_cancer_linked_to_high_meat_and_high_fat_diet/
- Published: 2013-11-17T13:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:28:54.000Z
- Description: A Taiwanese study comparing 98 breast cancer patients with 103 age-matched controls found women eating the most of a meat-and-fat dietary pattern were nearly three times as likely to have breast cancer as those eating the least. Heavy meat eaters also used more cooking oil.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Food, Nutrition, #vivvo-import

Sunday Nov 17, 2013 (foodconsumer.org) -- Breast cancer risk are higher among women eating a high fat and high meat diet, according to a study in Tzu Chi Medical Journal.

The study led by Jing-Hui Wu and colleagues from School of Medicine, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan shows that women who ate the highest amount of a high fat and high meat diet were nearly three times as likely as those who ate the lowest amount to develop breast cancer. 

The breast cancer-meat-fat link was derived from analysis of data from 98 cases of breast cancer and 103 age-matched controls. Dietary habits were surveyed through a food frequency questionnaire and serum albumin, triglyceride and total cholesterol levels were also examined.

Five dietary patterns were identified for the study including the meat-fat, pickle-vegetable, sugar-fried food, soy diet and coffee-egg dietary patterns. 

The breast cancer risk was increased 186% among those in the third and fourth quartile of meat and gat intake ,compared with those in the first and second quartile of meat and aft intake, the study found.

The authors also noted that women who ate lots of meat were also using high amounts of cooking oil, which means that both meat and fat can be responsible for the increase in the risk of breast cancer.

Breast cancer is diagnosed in 230,000 American women each year and the disease and its complications kill 37,000.

Breast cancer in many cases can be prevented by following a healthy diet and lifestyle. A plant-based diet can help reduce the risk drastically if not 100%. This has been observed in China Study conducted by Dr. T Colin Campbell, a nutrition professor at Cornell University and colleagues from Oxford University and Chinese Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.(David Liu, PHD)