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Article: Meaty findings about colon cancer and diet. (red meat consumption increases cancer risk)
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- December 15, 1990
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Meaty findings about colon cancer and diet
A large-scale, prospective study offers strong support for the long-standing suspicion that people who regularly eat red meat increase their risk of colon cancer. The study also turned up several new dietary indluences -- most notably that eating chicken and fish may reduce a person's risk of colon cancer, which ranks as the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States.
Through detailed questionnaires administered every two years since 1976, researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston have been tracking the health of 121,700 female registered nurses in 11 states. In the colon cancer ...