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Article: LOW-FAT DIET NO GUARD AGAINST BREAST CANCER.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- February 8, 1996
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Adopting a low-fat diet at midlife or later probably won't reduce a woman's risk of breast cancer, a study suggests.
Pooling and analyzing the results of seven previous studies involving a total of 337,819 women, mostly middle-aged or older, scientists found that the amount of fat in the participants' diets had no effect on their risk of breast cancer.
The researchers in the earlier studies didn't find out how long the women had been on their diets, so the results don't rule out the possibility that women who have avoided fat for most of their lives run a lower breast cancer risk.
Other studies suggest that if a low-fat diet can influence that ...