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MARCH 2008
IN STUDY AFTER STUDY, whole grains have been credited
with helping to lower your risk for a host of ailments,
including stroke, type-2 diabetes and heart disease,
as well as enhancing weight maintenance.…
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APRIL 2007
EAT YOUR GREENS—and your purples and yellows,
too. Brightly colored fruits and vegetables are already
known to contain a wide range of healthful nutrients.
Now a new Italian study says that increased intake of
flavonoids—antioxidant components found in abundance
in such foods—could lower your risk of kidney cancer
by nearly a third.…
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JANUARY 2008
THE MASSIVE Women’s Health
Initiative (WHI) may finally
have produced encouraging
news: A low-fat diet seems to
reduce postmenopausal women’s
risk of ovarian cancer—and women
with the unhealthiest diets benefit the
most from cutting down on fat.…
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AUGUST 2005
SCIENTISTS ARE DEBATING
the significance of a headlinegrabbing
study that seems to
show a link between a low-fat
diet and reduced recurrence of
breast cancer. Researchers said this represented
the first large, randomized
clinical trial to show diet could have
any impact on cancer outcomes. But
experts cautioned that the findings, presented
at the world’s largest cancer
meeting, the American Society of
Clinical Oncology, were only marginally
statistically significant.…
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JULY 2007
LOOKING TO LESSEN your breast cancer risk? Hold
off on the bacon and burgers. That’s the word from two
recent studies linking heavy consumption of processed
and grilled red meats with increased risk for breast cancer,
particularly among postmenopausal women.…
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DECEMBER 2007
Forget the old adage about an apple a
day. If you’re looking to lower your risk
of pancreatic cancer, you’d be wiser to
eat a healthy dose of onions, spinach and
certain cabbages.…
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JULY 2009
The recent 100th meeting of the American Association for Cancer
Research (AACR) spotlighted the growing importance scientists place on
the role of lifestyle in cancer prevention. The conference, which coincided
with a flurry of other news about diet and cancer, shed new light on what you
can do to reduce your cancer risk.…
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DECEMBER 2009
While there are still plenty of reasons
to watch your consumption
of animal fats, a large European
study concludes that meat, eggs and dairy
products do not increase the risk of breast
cancer. Results from the European Pros -
pec tive Investigation into Cancer and Nutri -
tion (EPIC) study of 319,826 women show
no significant link between overall intake
of these foods and breast-cancer risk.…
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APRIL 2010
The largest study of its kind to
date may tip the scales on the
controversial question of
whether higher vitamin D levels
are associated with reduced risk
for colorectal cancer. Researchers drawing
on data on more than a half-million
participants in the European Prospec -
tive Investigation into Cancer (EPIC)
study concluded that people with the
highest blood levels of vitamin D were
up to 40% less likely to develop colo -
rectal cancer compared to those with
the lowest levels.…
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