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...bills in their pocket and love in the air, more than 850 students came to Friday’s Pub Night in Loker Commons, hoping to buy both a date and a beer. Friday’s pub night was preceded by a date auction hosted by the Harvard Cancer Society (HCS). Apart from enjoying the entertainment and company, the attendees also enjoyed Pinocchio’s pizza, beer, wine, and other beverages at cost, but partook of pretzels and other small crunchy snacks for free while enjoying the music of Orange Crush.Many students were excited about the Cancer Society?...
...hindsight, it's easy to say that the investigators made a mistake in tracking only the total amount of fat consumed and not the saturated and trans fats now known to damage arteries. But all the earlier research on preventing cancer suggested that total fat was the culprit, so investigators decided to concentrate on that...
...answer to the first question is that it's really, really hard to get a lot of women to cut their fat intake to 20%--basically no butter or nuts and very little meat. As for the question about whether low-fat diets prevent cancer, the WHI study simply may not have gone on long enough. True, there was no statistically significant benefit when you compared the two large groups. But the women who had the highest fat consumption at the start of the trial and who managed to cut it back the closest to 20% for the longest period...
Furthermore, the women in the intervention group had 9% fewer polyps and other precancerous growths in their lower gastrointestinal tract. Given that it takes a decade or more for colorectal cancer to develop, it may be too soon to see if there's a corresponding drop in cancer rates. Also, the women increased their average consumption of fruits and vegetables only slightly, from four to five servings a day. "Maybe if we had gotten up to seven or so, on average, we would have been in a better place," says Shirley Beresford, a study leader and an epidemiologist...
...order to support his family, while she carries on an affair with his brother. However, “Gone Too Soon” by Sameera Haque ‘06 was nothing more than a trite rendition of the story in which a child discovers that her mother has cancer. While the story’s basic foundation is potent enough to have made a good performance through a strong delivery, the monologue was unoriginal and a little bland. It should have brought tears to the eyes, but instead, it seemed unrealistic—perhaps because Haque gave...