WINS protocol??

I don't have an answer to your question, but wanted to better understand your comment.  It must be that the diet is what counts and that most people can't properly follow it without consulations with a nutritionist,  because I don't think cancer can 'know' whether we are consulting with a nutritionist.  Isn't the goal to stay eat than 20 grams of fat a day (not easy!!)?

HollyHopes, from what I have read the WINS control arm group was on a standard diet with limited input from a dietician (once every 3 months) and at these only discussed nututional adequacy and not encouraged to change their diet.  The other other group decreased fat intact to 20 percent of total calories (or ~30 grams of fat per day rather than ~50).  They visited a nutrionist to help them make that change in diet.  It wasn't the fact that the control arm did not consulte with a nutritionist, but that the control arm did not change their diet (the control arm consumed about ~50 grams a day while the research group consumed about 30grams).  The study did not show "that following the low-fat diet alone does not reduce risk of recurrence." The visits with the nutrionist were to educate them on how to change their diet.  I don't think you need a nutritionist that is knowledgable about WINS (not an easy task since the study is ongoing), but one that can guide you in decreasing your fat to 20 percent of total calories.  

I adopted a similar diet last winter before I knew of WINS because my fiance wanted to use it to lose weight.  Its goal was also to decrease fat intake to less than 20% of consumed calories, increase fiber to ~40 grams a day, and eleminate transfats.  The course was half trying to convince us to change our diet and the other half on how to change it.  We met 3 hours an evening, twice a week, for 8 weeks.  To get daily fat intake to less than 20% you pretty much have to eleminate just about all meat and dairy products, and become an expert on food labels.  If I hadn't had such an indepth course which included cooking classes and lots of recipies I never would of been able to do it.  I'm not a complete vegetarian (we have meat about 4 times a week instead of 2 to 3 times a day) like they suggested, but my fat intake is greatly reduced and I'm careful about what I eat. 

I encourage you to visit any nutrionist (or local program) that will educate you on how to decrease daily fat intake to 20% of consumed calories and not wait for one that knows of WINS. 

WINS stands for Women's Intervention Nutrition Study.  Here's a link to a National Institutes of Health article about it.

http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/dec2006/nci-19.htm

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