A LEADING scientist who has been fighting breast cancer for more than two decades says the disease is inextricably linked to animal products.
Jane Plant, who was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1987, nearly lost all hope when the disease struck her for a fifth time in 1993.
Prof Plant, now 69, began to draw on her experiences working in China, where women have historically shown very low rates of breast cancer. One study from the 1970s showed the disease affected one in 100,000 Chinese women, compared with one in 12 in the West.
“I had checked this information with senior academics,” Prof Plant told the UK Telegraph. “Chinese doctors I knew told me they had hardly seen a case of breast cancer in years. Yet if Chinese women are on Western diets — if they go to live in the US or Australia, for example — within one generation they got the same rate.”
Prof Plant’s light bulb moment came when her husband, Peter, recalled that his Chinese colleagues would give him powdered milk because they did not drink it themselves.
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I don't drink milk or eat yoghurt, although I do enjoy cheese & ice-cream, small amounts of butter so I'm not totally dairy-free.
