Under Fire: Flame-Broiled Fish Linked with Higher Breast Cancer Risk

When cooked a certain way, even healthy foods may affect breast cancer risk, a new study finds. In the study, researchers found that women who ate flamed-broiled fish more than once a week had a 2.3 times greater risk of breast cancer compared with those who ate this style of fish less than once a week. Flame-broiled foods have come under fire in previous studies because they contain chemicals called "heterocyclic amines," which form when proteins are cooked by direct heat over an open flame (fo