Yes. They are. Do the medical research, don't just assert. It is a well-known fact that breasts that don't get good lymph drainage build up toxins and can result in breast cancer. It's also known that localized temperature rises in body parts as what is caused with bra-wearing, can increase the risk.
Both of these factors are present when you wear a bra, especially all the time.
Populations that don't wear bras have almost no incidence of breast cancer. When they start to "westernize" and wear bras, the disease appears. I'm not saying it's the only cause but the correlation to bra wearing and cancer is higher than the correlation between cigarettes and lung cancer, so make of that what you will.
Occasional bra wearing shouldn't be problematic as long as someone gets enough bra free time and also exercises (to promote lymph drainage), but I'm deeply disturbed by this new trend for people to sleep in their bras to keep their breasts perky. When you think about it, even if bras prevented sagging (which they do not, they just make you APPEAR like you aren't sagging while you are wearing them), you are LAYING DOWN when you sleep. The full force of gravity is hardly upon you.
But wearing a bra ALL the time, especially the types of constricting bras that are meant to "reduce sagging" or "prevent sagging" like underwire bras, is just asking for trouble.
Seriously do your research all you have to do is google bras and breast cancer to start finding the results.
If this were just some silly myth that couldn't affect health, it would be one thing, but I sincerely believe wearing a bra ALL the time is severely detrimental to health. In one study, women who wore a bra all the time, including while sleeping had a 125 fold greater chance of developing breast cancer than women who wore a bra 12 hours or less a day.
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Yes. They are. Do the medical research, don't just assert. It is a well-known fact that breasts that don't get good lymph drainage build up toxins and can result in breast cancer. It's also known that localized temperature rises in body parts as what is caused with bra-wearing, can increase the risk.
Both of these factors are present when you wear a bra, especially all the time.
Populations that don't wear bras have almost no incidence of breast cancer. When they start to "westernize" and wear bras, the disease appears. I'm not saying it's the only cause but the correlation to bra wearing and cancer is higher than the correlation between cigarettes and lung cancer, so make of that what you will.
Occasional bra wearing shouldn't be problematic as long as someone gets enough bra free time and also exercises (to promote lymph drainage), but I'm deeply disturbed by this new trend for people to sleep in their bras to keep their breasts perky. When you think about it, even if bras prevented sagging (which they do not, they just make you APPEAR like you aren't sagging while you are wearing them), you are LAYING DOWN when you sleep. The full force of gravity is hardly upon you.
But wearing a bra ALL the time, especially the types of constricting bras that are meant to "reduce sagging" or "prevent sagging" like underwire bras, is just asking for trouble.
Seriously do your research all you have to do is google bras and breast cancer to start finding the results.
If this were just some silly myth that couldn't affect health, it would be one thing, but I sincerely believe wearing a bra ALL the time is severely detrimental to health. In one study, women who wore a bra all the time, including while sleeping had a 125 fold greater chance of developing breast cancer than women who wore a bra 12 hours or less a day.
July 16, 2012 - 1:02amThis Comment
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