The new research on being slim

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ravdeb
ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

The new research article posted on BCO today says that keeping fit, being slim, eating low fat, exercising regularly, etc, etc, etc, will help prevent breast cancer.

Did I read that right?

I'm thin/slim, have always eaten a low fat diet (learned that from my mom) low salt (Mom never cooked with salt) and exercised regularly. I also have no family history of bc and I got bc.

I know, I know. Not everybody fits into the picture. Just wondered how many of you got bc who were not obese. These studies drive me mad!

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  • nosurrender
    nosurrender Member Posts: 2,019
    edited November 2007

    Oh my.

    Me too- slim, exercised, ate all the right things, never drank or smoked and got cancer

    twice! 

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  • newter
    newter Member Posts: 4,330
    edited November 2007

    I spent 13 years being a vegetarian and have never really been overweight until all the meds from having BC.  I am BRCA 1 positive so I am probably not much help here. 

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited November 2007
    Not sure that should matter that you are BRACA according to this theory. You should have been able to prevent it with all that other good history. Tongue out
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  • ddd
    ddd Member Posts: 82
    edited November 2007

    Me too, quite thin and exercised all my life, no family history, drink more now than ever in my life - may as well have some fun as depriving myself didn't do any good anyway.

    I look at it as a constant effort to turn attention away from all the toxins we have been and are continually exposed to.

    Make the victims feel responsible for their fate so they don't fight the big business of pumping the environment full of chemicals.

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited November 2007

    Truth is, the low fat diet I was on got my cholesterol up higher and I'm now on a statin. With the pill, all is well.

    So..yea..we get blamed for it all. How dumb is that?

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  • abbadoodles
    abbadoodles Member Posts: 2,618
    edited November 2007

    Haven't you ladies ever heard of "publish or perish?"

    Tina

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited November 2007

    Fat cells hold estrogen, so that's probably what they were referring to. Another slim one who got breast cancer here.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    I guess that if all environmental & genetic factors as well as other self-care/health habits (sleep, alcohol, meds, including hormones) could be controlled for, being slim, eating a low-fat diet and exercising regularly would help to prevent bc. But, well, they can't....so there ya go....crap shoot!!!!

    ~Marin

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    I AM WOMAN!!!!  That's a BIG risk. Laughing

    Shirley

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  • roseg
    roseg Member Posts: 3,133
    edited November 2007

    That's kind of a "herd" statistic. But each of us is an individual who is unique, so the average might indicate less breast cancer, but who among us is average?

    You could fill all the threads on this web site with women who were minding their health, doing all the right things and still got cancer. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    Oh, yes, everything you said. I've never been overweight. Never drank too much (except that one year in college). Always eaten reasonably healthy foods. Always been physically active. Plus I breastfed each of my daughters for a full year. That was supposed to decrease my chances too. It didn't.

    Could I have done all of those things even more? Sure. Would it have made a difference?

    Now, here I am eating right, exercising with fanatic consistency, not drinking. Do I really think this will decrease my chances of a recurrence? 

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  • Caseysmom
    Caseysmom Member Posts: 507
    edited November 2007

    Prior to be dx with ibc I weighed 125lbs exercised daily, ate low fat diet. I gain 90lbs from the steriods. 

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  • Maire67
    Maire67 Member Posts: 768
    edited July 2010

    I.

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  • Shirlann
    Shirlann Member Posts: 3,302
    edited November 2007

    Oh crap on the lot of them.  Every single night this week it has been something about breast cancer, and, usually blaming the victim. 

    Well, I refuse to be sick, go through hell, worry the rest of my life, AND feel guilty too.  I just won't do it.

    They are idiots, with nothing better to publish!  Shirlann

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited November 2007

    I think it's all bunk. I lived a healthy lifestyle and I got bc. Just like millions of other women. Cancer doesn't care if we're short,  tall, fat, thin, ugly, pretty, rich, poor, upper class, lower class, whether you had oatmeal for breakfast or Lucky Charms. It can happen to any of us, anytime.

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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited November 2007

    Psss....pass the Lucky Charms please. Smile

    As I sip my second cup of coffee because I'm a non-believer that a second cup will harm me (WHAT? Give me cancer? Been there, done that) I'm contemplating another square of chocolate.

    I'm thin not because I like to eat healthy. I'm thin cuz that's my body make-up and I eat healthy because most of the time, that's what I like best to eat. I walk daily cuz it energizes me. But, it will not keep that cancer away..though a mantra while walking did help me through my walks while on chemo!

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited November 2007
    i was normal size UNTIL i got cancer.  cancer made me fat.  maybe it'll work in reverse for me. 
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  • ravdeb
    ravdeb Member Posts: 3,116
    edited November 2007

    gsg..cancer doesn't make you fat!!!!Laughing

    I will admit that I've gone up and down in my weight but nothing of any significance. I'm in an eating mode now and I'm not on any cancer drugs but am anxious..not really about the cancer but about some other issues.

    I know that when I was on chemo with the steroids I had cravings that were not my norm.

    At any rate..maybe the extra weight will actually protect you and then we can start a NEW study! Smile

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited November 2007

    ravdeb:  i'm pretty sure it was the cancer that made me fat and not the 10,000 calories a day i was knocking back while on steroids.  i'm gonna milk the cancer card for the rest of my life.

    i can't exercise every day...i had cancer.

    i'm gonna eat that whole bowl of halloween candy....i had cancer.

    can i have your dessert?  i had cancer. 

    please pick up the dry cleaning.  i had cancer.

    don't argue with me.  i had cancer.

    i can't have sex tonight.  i had cancer.

    breast cancer is like hitting the excuse lotto.

      

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited November 2007
    Also, Ravdeb.  you should blame your current eating mode on cancer instead of the other anxieties in your life and get people to do stuff for you....like bring you cakes and stuff. Cool
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  • Naomi12475
    Naomi12475 Member Posts: 253
    edited November 2007

    hummmm, using the cancer card.....sounds like that could come in handy some day.lol! Just wanted to chime in, I have been thin all of my life, ate reasonably and was pretty active, no history, still got cancer. I have an identical twin, she never got cancer, a mother who I am sorry to say has been over weight all of her life, and she did not get breast cancer. I have another sister, she too is over weight, no cancer. I am truely thankful that none of them got breast cancer. I guess there are soooooo many variables that is why there is never a clear answer to anything when it comes to breast cancer.

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited November 2007

    naomi:  my mom played my cancer card like crazy.  i heard her tell a telemarketer one day:  i don't have time to talk to you, we have cancer in the house.

    i roared when i heard that.  "cancer in the house."  It still makes me giggle. 

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  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,701
    edited November 2007

    Only the overweight ones in my immediate family have had BC.  Praying that the skinny ones don't follow.  I've lost about 35 pounds since my dx, so I'm a thinner one now.  Crapshoot!!

    Okay, gsg, your post hit a nerve.  I love you and I hope you don't take this wrong.  Hoping that you're being facetious in your post, but...  quit using the cancer card.  You "had" cancer, now go live, live, live, and have fun.  I know you've been down.  It's got to be the negative thinking.  I work with a woman who "had" cancer and used that excuse to be mean and nasty (not saying that you are) or lazy or whatever.   She's just been dx'd with a new and different cancer.  I know it can happen to any of us at any time, but try using the card only on special occasions or needs.  It's such a negative waste of energy.  Get out and live, darn it, you're too smart, young, and beautiful to make excuses not to.

    Okay, slap me if I've said too much.  Steppin' back in the crap.

    lini

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited November 2007

    lini:  i was COMPLETELY joking.  i never play the card except in jest with my friends and family.   humor is the ONLY thing getting me through this bad patch.

    p.s.  sometimes i forget on-line that people don't know me and may not "get" my stupid sense of humor.  i'm sorry i hit a nerve with you. 

    p.p.s.s.  don't blame me for hitting the nerve though.  i had cancer. 

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  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,701
    edited November 2007

    Oh good!!  I'm pms-ing, it's really easy to hit those nerves right now.  See that's my excuse.  I have PMS.  LOL!!

    It's the work lady that has used the excuse over and over.  I guess it was really her that hit the nerve.

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited November 2007

    ok.  i can't let this go.  i kind of resent being called a negative thinker.  i'm not a negative thinker...never have been.  you think i don't want to go out and live, live, live my life and have fun?  

    i seriously can't believe you said negative thinking is causing my depression. 

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited November 2007

    and now i'm crying.  god i hate these swings.

    i'm sorry for my previous post, lini.  i posted that and then read your apology post. 

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  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,701
    edited November 2007

    I apologize, too.  Love you and your posts.  Sometimes (lots of times) I take things too literally.  I'm familiar with depression.  It's a family ailment.  I've been lucky on that front and have been able to pull myself out, but others in my family have not.  I should've been more sensitive.  Let's move on now and be silly once again, 'kay?

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  • Sandra1957
    Sandra1957 Member Posts: 1,701
    edited November 2007

    Geez, am I or am I not always steppin' in and out of crap?!

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  • gsg
    gsg Member Posts: 3,386
    edited November 2007
    it's because you had cancer.
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