Word: dieting
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Instead, many researchers around the world are pointing to another component of the Western way of life: a diet rich in fat. Researchers have known for more than 40 years that high-fat diets promote the growth of mammary tumors in laboratory animals. They have also observed that the varying rates of breast cancer in various countries correlate neatly with the amount of fat in a nation's diet. The U.S., Britain and the Netherlands, which have some of the world's richest diets, also have among the highest breast-cancer rates. Meanwhile, in countries such as Japan, Singapore...
...responsible for such national variations, researchers have looked at immigrant groups. They have found that when Japanese move to the U.S., or Italians to Australia, their previously low breast-cancer mortality rate rises to match the higher rate of their adopted country within a generation or two, as diet and life-style change. "The results are too consistent to believe that the association is indirect," says Maureen Henderson, an epidemiologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. When it comes to the breast cancer-fat connection, she says flatly, "I'm sure...
...rise is the Westernization of eating habits," says Dr. Akira Eboshida, chief deputy director of the Health and Welfare Ministry's Disease Control Division. "We are eating more animal fat and less fiber." Cancer of the breast is not the only ailment rising with the larding of the Japanese diet. Heart disease is also surging, as is cancer of the colon, ovaries and prostate. All have been linked to a high-fat diet. On the other hand, stomach cancer, historically the ! most common cancer in Japan, is falling as the nation moves away from its traditional diet of salty, pickled...
...proof, of course, is in the pudding, or in this case, not eating any. Unfortunately, researchers seeking conclusive evidence of the effects of a very low-fat diet have had little success in obtaining funds. One concern is cost. Another is that women participating in such trials would have trouble ) adhering to the drastic regimen, which would mean very limited amounts of meat, dairy products and oils of any kind...
Ernest, I came to understand, was a sort of brilliant grown-up orphan: he had an air that was both distinguished and tattered. Something in his mind had broken years before. He survived on technique. Ernest taught me how to forage for an all-American diet: wait politely behind a fast-food place at closing time and accept the unsold hamburgers and fries. A third problem, keeping clean, was difficult but manageable: a cold-water spigot in the morning...