Friday, December 29, 2006

"Housework cuts risk of breast cancer" - study


According to a report in The Scotsman newspaper, moderate housework cuts the risk of developing breast cancer.

The claim comes from a study conducted on a sample of 218,169 women, aged 20 to 80, in nine European countries.

"Pre-menopausal women who did housework were 30 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer than pre-menopausal women who did none, while post-menopausal women who did housework were 20 per cent less likely to develop the disease than those who did none."

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