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Article: REDUCING TOTAL FAT INTAKE MAY HAVE SMALL EFFECT ON RISK OF BREAST CANCER, NO EFFECT ON RISK OF COLORECTAL CANCER, HEART DISEASE, OR STROKE
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 7, 2006
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The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' National Institutes of Health issued the following press release:
Following an eating pattern lower in total fat did not significantly reduce the incidence of breast cancer, heart disease, or stroke, and did not reduce the risk of colorectal cancer in healthy postmenopausal women, according to the latest clinical trial results from the National Institutes of Health's Women's Health Initiative (WHI).
The study was designed to evaluate a low-fat dietary pattern's effect on the risk of cancer. However, investigators also evaluated the data to review the effect on cardiovascular disease. The results from the largest ever clinical trial of ...