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Article: LOW-FAT DIET MAY NOT SHIELD WOMEN FROM BREAST CANCER, STUDY REPORTS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 1, 1987
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A low-fat diet, widely recommended as a means of preventing
breast cancer, apparently plays no role in protecting women from
the disease, a major new study concludes.
If true, the finding means there appears to be no practical
way for women to protect themselves from breast cancer, a disease
that strikes one of every 11 American women.
"Within this study, there is really no support for an
association between dietary fat and breast cancer," said Dr. Walter
C. Willett of Harvard Medical School.
Willett's study, based on the eating habits of almost 90,000
nurses, found that those on relatively high-fat diets had less
breast cancer, if anything, than those whose eating habits ...