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Article: STUDY FINDS NO MAJOR BENEFITS OF LOW-FAT DIET LOW-FAT DIET
- Article from:
- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2006
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A low-fat diet did not reduce older women's risk of breast
cancer, colorectal cancer, or heart disease, according to a long-
awaited $415 million government-funded study that creates uncertainty
about exactly what Americans should eat to prevent disease.
Researchers had expected the eight-year study of nearly 49,000
women ages 50 to 79 the largest and longest ever of whether a low-
fat diet prevents cancer and heart disease to show that reducing fat
has significant health benefits. This belief has existed for decades,
based on smaller studies and the observation that people in Asian
and other countries consume far less fat than Americans and have
lower rates of breast and colorectal ...
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