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Colorectal Cancer
Women's risk not increased by dietary fat and fatty acid intake
February 3rd, 2005
The good news is that women's consumption of fat and fatty acids in their diet doesn't appear to affect their risk of developing colorectal cancer. But before you head for the fast food joint for lunch, the perhaps not so good news, for some, is that the exception to this finding is intake of fried foods away from home. J. Lin and colleagues at Harvard University's School of Medicine "examined the association of intakes of different types of fat and fatty acids with risk of colorectal cancer using data from the Women's Health Study, a randomized trial of low-dose aspirin and vitamin E carried out among 39,876 healthy U.S. women aged {{>=}}45...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-02-03)
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