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Article: Colorful Diet Helps Keep Cancer At Bay: Fruits And Vegetables Are Key.(plant-based diet helps lower cancer risk)
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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News reports about the role diet plays in cancer prevention seem to be as fickle as the recent stock market. One week, fiber is the cure-all for colon cancer; the next week, it's dismissed as unimportant.
Late last year, for example, a large study from Harvard Medical School shocked even experts when researchers found virtually no connection between fruit and vegetable consumption (or even fiber-rich fruits and vegetables) and colon cancer. As one of the largest studies of its kind--more than 88,000 women and 47,000 men--the research carded clout and garnered gleeful, bubble-bursting headlines.
But don't trade in your broccoli for burgers just yet. Upon ...