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Should you toss your bra?

Bra-cancer link still murky, but flax and gym should do boobs good

Elizabeth Bromstein

 

Can our bras kill us? Well, not mine – I don’t need one. I’m a card-carrying

member of the Itty-Bitty Titty Committee. (But don’t worry, something else will

kill me.) Yours, though: can it do you in?

There’s an argument floating around out there that restraining boobies causes

cancer. Supporters of this view say all the wires and elastics interfere with

the lymphatic system’s ability to drain those ubiquitously discussed toxins.

But don’t unhook just yet. Not everyone has leapt on the bra-is-bad bandwagon.

Some pretty knowledgeable folks say you won’t lose your life to your lingerie.

What the experts say “A bra, if tight, could constrict the lymphatic vessels

beneath the skin that are responsible for draining the breast and removing

toxins, so it’s certainly possible that wearing a bra that’s too tight for long

periods of time, if it leaves red marks on your skin, might increase the risk of

cancer. Never use an underwire bra. Try to find one that’s not tight. Other

breast problems that can arise are cysts, tenderness, swelling, breast

infections – especially in pregnant women. [Healthy breasts need] exercise, good

diet, balanced hormones, minimal stress. Eat ground flaxseeds, at least 2

tablespoons every day. Take turmeric in curcumin capsules or add it to soup. And

be vegetarian. Forty minutes a day of exercise reduces risk of breast cancer by

about 60 per cent.”

SAT DHARAM KAUR, naturopath, author, The Complete Natural Medicine Guide To

Breast Cancer, Owen Sound

“Wearing anything tight can compress the lymphatic vessels, prevent the proper

cleansing of the tissue and cause fluid backup, or lymphedema. That leads to

pain, cysts, tenderness and ultimately, because of the carcinogens in our air,

food and water and the toxification of the tissue that isn’t being flushed out,

cancer. In cultures where they don’t wear bras, they don’t have breast disease.

If a woman wants to be on the safe side, she shouldn’t wear a bra at all. It’s

an embarrassment to the medical establishment that they’ve ignored this. There’s

nothing refuting our research, and there was a study at Harvard in 1991 that

showed bra-free women had a lower rate of breast cancer.”

SYDNEY SINGER, co-author, Dressed To Kill: The Link Between Breast Cancer And

Bras, Institute for the Study of Culturogenic Disease, Pahoa, Hawaii

“There’s no evidence of any link between wearing a bra and developing breast

cancer. The lymphatic fluid from the breast drains directly back toward the

chest wall and the armpit and not underneath the breast where the bra might be

tight. If you don’t like wearing a bra, don’t, but don’t think this will keep

you from getting cancer. There are things we know reduce risk. Older women

should only be on hormone replacement therapy for the shortest amount of time.

Overweight women have an increased risk post-menopausally. The age at which you

start and end your period or have children may be factors. Breastfeeding is

known to reduce risk. No, there is no danger from wearing a bra.”

SUE ROCHMAN, medical editor, Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, Pacific

Palisades, California

“There is absolutely no scientific evidence that anything Dressed To Kill says

is remotely connected to the truth. They talk about ‘lymphatic drainage,’

‘lymphatic stasis,’ all of these things allegedly leading to breast cancer. The

people who wrote that book obviously have no idea about the anatomy and

physiology of the breast. It’s nonsense. It’s even more nonsensical now that we

know more about the molecular origin of cancers.”

GORDON F. SCHWARTZ, MD, professor of surgery, Jefferson Medical College,

Philadelphia

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