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Article: Women in diet, cancer study able to stick to regimen and lose weight Study is designed to see if very low-fat diet is better than low-fat one for preventing breast cancer recurrence
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- March 30, 1998
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Hold the chocolate bars.
An ongoing study designed to see whether very low-fat diets can
prevent a recurrence of breast cancer has already shown one result:
Women have been able to stick with such diets for at least two
years.
Such women also lost weight not an intended effect, but a side
benefit nonetheless.
The role of diet in cancer has been "a source of confusion" to the
public, but many population studies and research on animals show "the
promoting effect of dietary fat in breast cancer," said Barbara
Winters, a physician with the American Health Foundation, which is
conducting the study with a grant from the National Cancer
Institute.
It's called the Women's Intervention Nutrition ...
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