Is it true that coffee helps to reduce breasts in women?

There is an opinion that excessive use of coffee negatively affects the size of the breast in women. We decided to check if this is so.

The fact that the addiction to coffee leads to a decrease in the size of the chest was reported by many media: TV channel "World","RIA Novosti","Moscow Komsomolets","Komsomolskaya Truth"And others. information can be found in glossy publications And on sites Right -District theme. They talk about this and some Experts-dietitologists, and users of social networks (""VKontakte" X) And Platform blog They are divided by appropriate fears.

To understand whether the use of coffee can really lead to a reduction in the breast, it is necessary to figure out what its size depends on. Mainly him Determines genetics. Since a person receives a fixed set of genes at birth, it is impossible to change it using coffee in the middle of life. Among other important factors affecting the size of the female breast are hormones, body weight and physiological condition (for example, pregnancy or a certain phase of the menstrual cycle). 

There are some grounds To believe that the use of coffee can help lose weight. The body weight index correlates with the size of the chest, because breastIn addition to the mammary gland, it usually also includes a fat layer. However, specialists Markthat the set or weight loss will not necessarily affect its size - everything individually, perhaps, the fat layer will leave other parts of the body, and the size of the chest will remain unchanged.

The parameters of the female breast can also affect hormone Estrogen - He is responsible for its small changes in different phases of the menstrual cycle. Also estrogen, for example, Assign For breast growth people during a transgender transition. Exist researchindicating that the use of caffeine really affects the level of this hormone in women. However, the results vary depending on the origin: for so, in white women, the level of estrogen decreased, the Asian men increased, and the blacks were not revealed at all in the blacks. Therefore, without additional studies, it is difficult to unambiguously say how exactly coffee affects the level of estrogen and thereby on the parameters of the female breast.

The authors of most of the articles and posts about the effect of coffee on the size of the chest refer to the certain work of scientists from the University of Lund (Sweden), and the year of publication of the relevant scientific article varies from the source to the source. The only thing study, carried out by scientists from Lund, associated with the use of coffee and chest parameters and discovered “verified”, was published in 2008. In 269 women from families with a high risk of breast cancer twice behind the menstrual cycle measured breast volume (do not confuse it with size - the difference between the girths of the chest under the chest and the chest itself), they also filled out the questionnaire about their lifestyle (including answered the question about the use of coffee). About half of the participants were carriers of the CYP1A2*1F gene, which is associated with the risk of breast cancer. In fact, the researchers studied not at all the effect of coffee in the diet on the size of the bust, but the correlation between the presence of a certain gene, the use of coffee and the volume of the chest. It turned out that the carriers of the CYP1A2*1F gene, which use three or more cups of coffee with a volume of 150 ml every day, the chest was smaller than those who avoided this drink. However, among lovers of coffee who did not possess this genome, the volume of the chest, on the contrary, was a little more. Scientists did not argue that it was the use of coffee that helps to reduce the breast. They could not come to this conclusion, given the design of the study that did not intend to track the indicators in the dynamics for some long time. In addition, the sample of the subjects was relatively small. 

American scientific magazine Discover in due time He called it The publication of the Swedes is the worst scientific article of the week-precisely because many media outlets interpreted this publication incorrectly, silent about the focus of researchers on genetics and providing notes with loud headlines about the negative effect of coffee on the size of the chest. For 15 years, retelling to media began to reflect the content of the source even worse. 

Previously "verified" already Disassembled The assertion that the eating of cabbage affects the size of the chest. Scientific evidence of any effect of such a method could not be found then. The search for similar coffee works that would confirm the causal relationship between the abundant use of this drink and the breast reduction did not lead to any reliable results.

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