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Article: Even low-fat diets pose fat-linked risk. (breast cancer)
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- August 25, 1990
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Even low-fat diets pose fat-linked risk
Many studies of women in Europe and North America have linked high-fat diets with breast cancer. A new Chinese study--focusing on diets considered low-fat by Western standards--strengthens the notion that the risk of breast cancer rises with an increase in fat consumption. On average, study participants derived only 22.7 percent of their calories from fat, whereas Americans average 38 to 40 percent.
Researchers from Shanghai Medical University and Canada's National Cancer Institute in Toronto interviewed 186 women with breast cancer, 186 healthy women living in the same urban Shanghai neighborhoods and 186 women hospitalized ...