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...Gorbach, professor of community health at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston: "There is persuasive evidence that a low-fat diet can help prevent, and even treat, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. I'm of the school that holds that low-fat diets also reduce the risk of colon and breast cancer." At the very least, Gorbach notes, vegetarians tend to be thinner than meat eaters, and that alone is beneficial...
...long and how well one lives, of course, depend in part on heredity. The chances of blowing out 85 candles go up 5% with each parent or grandparent who has passed that milestone. A family history of certain ailments, such as breast or colon cancer, heart disease, depression or alcoholism, extends the risk of developing such problems. Increasingly, though, researchers believe personal habits and environmental influences may hold the key to why some people are more "successful" at aging than are others. "You find a tremendous variability between individuals," observes Rowe. "The older people become, the less alike they become...
...project, which will target colon and liver cancer, will operate out of the Cancer Center at Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital...
...researchers selected liver and colon cancer because they are "two major worldwide cancers," said Dr. Kurt J. Isselbacher, the director of the MGH Cancer Center...
...Liver cancer is extremely prevalent in Africa and the Orient, and colon cancer throughout the world," said Isselbacher...