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Article: Halt heart disease or beat breast cancer? A woman's quandary.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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One is perceived to be the biggest health threat to women; the other is the real thing. Though both claim far too many lives, the 46,000 American women who die each year from breast cancer are but a small percentage of the 370,000 who succumb to this country's number one killer--heart disease. The truth is, after age 50, heart disease doesn't discriminate by gender.
Heart disease affects more than nine million American women in all, so it makes sense to seek protection. But sometimes reports in the media can be confusing for those trying to eat right to keep both heart disease and breast cancer at bay.
Already this year, researchers have released the ...
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