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Comic: Hey, but I've improved my diet: I gave up high-fat liver pâté and wine...
...know cancer is not a one-shot process. Over the eons, the human body has evolved numerous defense mechanisms that detoxify small quantities of environmental carcinogens. So several fail-safe systems have to malfunction for a malignancy to develop. For that reason, chronic smoking, hereditary defects and a high-fat diet present the greatest dangers to health. People who want to stop eating their fruits and vegetables will have to find a better excuse than fear of pesticides...
Elsewhere, researchers are discovering that a high-fat diet plays an even nastier role in heart trouble than previously thought. Besides raising cholesterol levels slowly over time, fat-rich meals can send the body's blood- clotting system into overdrive and make blood dangerously sludgy within a matter of hours, thus elevating the risk of a heart attack. The fatty foods apparently trigger production of factor VII, a blood-clotting substance, which in turn sets off a massive chemical reaction. The good news is that switching to a low-fat diet promptly eliminates the increased risk of an artery-plugging...
...diet: plenty of fiber, not too much fat. But a major new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association says it ain't necessarily so. After keeping tabs on nearly 90,000 women for eight years, doctors at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital and other institutions found no evidence for the assertion. Earlier studies had pointed to the same conclusion, but diehards still think the link may exist. They point out that all the women in the study ate plenty of fat; it was just that high-fat diets generated no more cancer than moderate...
...average of just 2% to 3%. Still, a 1% reduction nationwide could lead to a 2% drop in deaths from heart disease. The biggest reduction occurs in people with the highest cholesterol levels, but bran alone probably won't do much for couch potatoes who eat a high-fat diet. That's only so-so news for the Quaker Oats Co., which sponsored the report...