Studies have shown that the hormone estrogen, representing over 80% of cases of breast cancer.

Any type of alcohol, whether beer, wine, spirits or anything can change the hormone levels. It is important to note that it is not the alcohol (wine), which protects you, but the flavonoids and antioxidants. What determines the risk, even the alcohol and the quantity in which it is consumed.

In general, is a guide for safe consumption of alcohol is five ounces of wine, twelve ounces of beer or 1.5 ounces of alcohol. This falls to about one glass per day. If you have two risk for developing breast cancer by 10%, and three drinks increase the risk at 30%.

In fact, which is equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Regular raises your drinking water-estrogens, which in your breast tissue and can be activated, the cells to cancer cells.

In general, alcohol should be avoided if you are addicted or pregnant could have a disease that is characterized by alcohol or take any new medicines which have side effects when mixed with alcohol.

Studies have shown that women who do not drink any alcohol at a much lower risk of developing breast cancer than those who begin. Even those who drink alcohol heavily or in excess ( "fall in a state of drunkenness") always (more than two or three times a day) are also greater risks.

To the effect of alcohol as a risk factor, the strategy is simple. Do you drink moderately and not in large quantities, never drink during pregnancy. May you decide not total alcohol, drink juice instead of champagne or wine without alcohol and beer. In the end, as we have seen, in very small quantities, alcohol can help you to reduce your risk, but overindulgence can have the opposite effect.

Laura Guthrie is a former cancer patients who have recovered. It now shares his best of the best information to give back.