#Ladies, #Ditch the #Bra

Louise Habakus

Evidence of a relationship between bras and breast cancer may rethink the societal convention of wearing bras.

I realize it may feel some combination of uncomfortable, unprofessional, or unnecessarily provocative. Societal convention has most of us trussing up before going out.

If you are reading this at home, do me a favor and unhook. Then keep reading.

There's Some Evidence of a Relationship Between Bras and Breast Cancer.

Yes, seriously.

Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer and Bras

Sydney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer authored a book called Dressed To Kill. They interviewed 4,000+ women in five major U.S. cities over two years. Half the women had been diagnosed with breast cancer. They found:75% of women who slept in their bras developed breast cancer1 in 7 who wore their bras 12+ hours per day developed breast cancer1 in 168 who did not wear a bra developed breast cancer

#BreastCancer #CoverUp Continues

Sydney Ross Singer

Breast cancer is one of the major killers of women in the United States. It is also one of the most overdiagnosed and overtreated conditions. Sadly, most women have no idea that simply not wearing a bra can have a major impact on the likelihood of developing breast cancer. 

You probably didn't hear about a recent study from Brazil, published in May, 2016 in the journal Advances in Oncology Research and Treatments.

Entitled, “Wearing a Tight Bra for Many Hours a Day is Associated with Increased Risk of Breast Cancer”, the study echoes another recent study, done in 2015 in Kenya, which also confirmed the bra-cancer link.

“This study demonstrated the existence of a relationship between the use of a tight bra when associated with an increased number of hours wearing it and the risk of breast cancer among pre- and post-menopausal women.”

Studies from Venezuela, Scotland and numerous studies out of China also agree. Wearing tight bras

#Breast #Thermography: A #Tool for #Health

What Every Woman Should Know

by Sherri Tenpenny, DO, AOBNMM, ABIHM

During the past half-century, the lifetime risk of breast cancer more than tripled in the United States. In the 1940s, a woman’s lifetime risk of breast cancer was one in 22. By 2007, it was one in eight. While advances in medicine have increased a women’s chance for survival, little has been done to reduce–or prevent–the cancer from occurring in the first place. 

Thermography is the use of an infrared thermal camera to detect and record the heat radiating from the body.