Archive for April, 2011

The risk of using a bra is too tight

A variety of shapes and models on the market and their bra with various shades of accompanying accessories, bra not only serves as a complement to dress but can also give the impression of the breasts in women, there are types of bra that has a wire on the bottom so it can support breast appearance with better. Breasts go up and look fuller. However, the emerging notions that under wire bras can cause breast cancer.

The news emerged around 1995, the results of research Sidney Ross Singer and Soma Grismaijer in the United States, against 4700 women. In the book Dressed to kill, the two scientists suggested, the use of a bra associated with the incidence of breast cancer.

The head of the epidemiology of reproductive and hormonal National Cancer Institute, Louise Brinton, said that such an assumption is not unreasonable. Over the past 30 years conducting research in the field of cancer, he still found that the most common occurrence of cancer related to endogenous hormone levels in the body.

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