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...Breast implants carry a much smaller risk of connective-tissue disorders than previously believed, according to a study released Tuesday by Harvard researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...years scientists have reported conflicting evidence on whether cutting down on fat in the diet could decrease the risk of breast cancer. The latest: it won't. A huge analysis, pooling data on 340,000 females from four countries, shows no relationship between dietary fat and breast-cancer rates. Even extremely low-fat regimens, with fat providing less than 20% of total calories, did not reduce the cancer risk...
Though fat intake does not seem to affect the risks of breast cancer, researchers cautioned that fats should be avoided for other health reasons...
...Despite the lack of association with breast cancer, there are other good reasons to limit intake of red meat and high fat dairy foods and to increase consumption of fruit and vegetables, including the prevention of colon cancer and heart disease," Hunter said...
According to the report, the results which were pooled together came from studies which met three criteria: the study included a minimum of 200 cases of breast cancer, the study used a baseline derived from a comprehensive questionnaire about food intake from the previous year and data from a validation study of the diet-assessment method was available...