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...recently spent an entire week eating only food that I had shrink-wrapped and cooked in tepid water for an inordinate amount of time: eight hours for a chicken breast, 24 hours for a steak, 36 hours for short ribs that came out rare. Although this culinary method may sound fit for a survival camp, a growing number of foodies are embracing sous vide, French for "under vacuum," as the ideal way to slowly cook meat in its own juices. (Watch TIME's video "Sous Vide: Your Food Takes a Bath...
...film focuses on sexual violence against women and takes its title from the Peruvian myth that the women raped by members of the armed forces during the uprising transmitted their suffering to their children through their breast milk...
...Larry Norton, a breast-cancer expert at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, agrees and cautions against applying these findings immediately to the clinic. "This is an observational study, and hence it is impossible to control for confounding variables," he says, "and should not be used for individual clinical decisionmaking." But Norton acknowledges that the ideal study - in which women would be randomly assigned to either have a double mastectomy or not - could never be done, since it would not be ethical to prevent women from having a procedure known to reduce the risk of cancer recurrence...
...same answer every time. And the results make good clinical sense. That adds another level of reassurance," she says. "Our hope is that when women hear the numbers, they will take a second look and decide not to go forward with a preventive mastectomy [in their healthy breast] if it won't give them a survival benefit...
...findings clearly do not apply to every breast-cancer patient, she says, but at the very least, it's one more piece of information that women and their doctors can discuss when weighing their best treatment options...