new study: Diet Does Not Reduce B/C risk. WRONG!

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GIRLS:LINK ON THE HOME PAGE, A NEW STUDY CONCLUDES THAT OUR DIET DOES NOT REDUCE BREAST CANCER RISK! THEY SHOULD ALSO HAVE INCLUDED THE STUDY ( JUNE,2007) IN THE JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, THAT DIET IS EXTREMELY INPORTANT TO RECUCE B/C RISK! MORE ONE SIDED REPORTING! PLEASE READ ON..

Diet Findings Hard to Swallow


There are a number of reasons why the study may have found what it did. For one, the women were self-reporting their eating habits -- possibly leading to dubious results.



"People ate less toward the end [of the study]," says Keith Ayoob, associate professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. "But they either didn't lose weight or actually gained weight. This puts a bit of strain on the credibility of the self-reporting."



and And even if the women reported their calories accurately, most of them did not reach the target fat reduction in their diets -- even after receiving counseling and other interventions.

"These women did not reduce their dietary fat very much by their self report," says Dr. Dean Ornish, founder and president of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, Calif.


"Both groups reported consuming more fat at the end of the study than at the beginning, so the hypothesis could not be tested."

Also, the women in this study were already eating more fruits and vegetables than most Americans, even before the study started.

"The study utilized women who were already using far greater amounts of fruits and vegetables than most individuals -- one serving of fruit and two of vegetables is the norm," says Elizabeth Jeffery, professor of nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana.

This could minimize the amount of difference between the groups, since both were eating healthy diets at the start.

Critics of the study also urged that the results must be viewed in perspective with other, similar studies.

For example, a previous report by the same group, published in June 2007 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that diet made a big difference in reducing breast cancer mortality.