There are lots of good reasons to try and follow a healthier diet.

You lose weight, you feel good, but the main reason to live a longer, happy, productive

life.

Sounds good, right?

And though it may sound deceptively easy, the devil is in the details.

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

In the third of our podcast on the efficacy of mammograms, we try to understand the mammogram

paradox.

What is that you may ask?

The mammogram paradox is that it's the women who are harmed the most, who are the ones

who claim the greatest benefit.

Here's the story.

Over the last few decades, our radiation exposure is nearly doubled.

It's almost exclusively to medical sources such as CT scans.

We've known that higher dose radiation, like CT scans and angiograms, can cause breaks

in our DNA.

But now we know that mammograms can too.

You can find x-ray-induced DNA damage and white blood cells drawn from women right after

her mammogram.

That's amazing.

They can find evidence of DNA break.

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