Alcohol's link to breast cancer - think healty: where the mind goes, the body follows

Yet another study suggests a link between alcohol consumption and breast cancer. Scientists investigating an unusually high rate of the disease in California's Marin County--a neighbor of the famous wine-producing counties of Napa and Sonoma--found that Marin's female residents tend to share a similar profile: They're affluent, highly educated and have few pregnancies, all of which correlate with higher breast-cancer rates. Because the Marin women were so demographically alike, however, it was easy for the researchers to pinpoint an additional--and very specific--risk factor: having two or more alcoholic drinks daily. "This study is one of many showing that more-than-moderate drinking has a detrimental effect on your risk for breast cancer," says co-author Tina Clarke, Ph.D. of the Northern California Cancer Center in Union City.