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

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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