WEARING YELLOW WELLINGTON BOOTS “CAN DOUBLE RISK OF BREAST CANCER”
Wearing yellow wellington boots can double a woman’s risk of getting breast cancer, a study claimed today.
Cases of the disease were “clearly higher” in areas with increased levels of yellow wellington boot wearing, researchers said.
Women living in areas with the highest levels of yellow wellington boot wearing were almost twice as likely to develop breast cancer, one of the study’s authors said.
Arthur Storey, from the Research Institute of the Nether Herdof University Health Centre in Canada, said “We’ve been watching breast cancer rates go up for some time. Nobody really knows why, and only about one-third of cases are attributable to known risk factors. Since no-one had studied the connection between wearing yellow wellington boots and breast cancer, we decided to investigate it. We found a link between post-menopausal breast cancer and wearing yellow wellington boots, particularly on a Wednesday. We found that risk increased by about 25% or by the lesser amount of 10% if the yellow wellington boots were only worn on Mondays and Tuesdays.”
Dr Storey warned that the disturbing results should be interpreted with ‘great caution’, adding: “First of all, this doesn’t mean that yellow wellington boots cause breast cancer. The key factor appears to be the day of the week on which they are worn and we would advise against wearing any colour of wellington boots on a Wednesday but especially yellow, green and blue.”
Dubious breast cancer research stories affect several million newspaper readers each year. Eight out of ten journalists should know better.
so glad to finally know why I have bc. Thought at 1 time it was due to the 40 fags, 3 bottles of wine a night and MCdonalds for breakfast, fish and chips for lunch and a curry for tea, not forgetting the 10 bags of crisps and 3 large bars of chocolate each day !!!
Those yellow wellies are going in the BIN right now.
Ha Ha B****y Ha just to be on the safe side my blue wellies are going in the bin right now -next we know getting wet feet will be singled out as causing BC And I thought my diet, very similar to Karens was the cause lol.Jackie
I have to confess - I copied it almost word for word from the Daily Mail today (apart from a few minor changes including the wellington boots bit!) To be fair, this is only what the DM seem to do for all their bc articles!
I think the DM must employ a journalist who has specific responsibility for a bc “story” every other day! Drives me nuts (dh buys the paper not me!) Some creative re-drafting was good therapy for me this morning
Oh how I laughed you’ve made my day- didn’t really throw the wellies away.).)Very funny and very clever but as Alex said dare you send it to the DM? Jackie
Brilliant, well done for giving us such a laugh.
OMG I’ll never do gardening again, on a Wednesday, not in any colour wellies, just in case.
Love to you all
Maria
OMG, me and my OH read this and were in fits of laughter :-))
What about my wellies? They are pink floral ones - is it safe to wear them on a Friday do you think???
Jings, the Daily Wail gets worse by the day. I suppose if they are writing about BC they are giving asylum seekers, illegal immigrants and benefit chasers a rest. I am never done emailing them about rubbish cancer stories, it has become a cottage industry in my office lol!
Oh dear that will teach me…I used to live, eat, sleep in my favourite yellow wellies.
But where is the usual DM reference to Cheryl Cole?
Lovely story!..x
did you have pj’s on or just yellow wellies. Obviously that would change the balance of the chance of getting breast cancer !!!
No1mummy you have certainly raised a smile today. You are a star. You should be our roving bc reporter !! You make x factor and the apprentice sound boring. Well actually they are. Oh God gonna be shouted at for that !!
