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• Diet Does Not Affect Breast Cancer?

  The objective of The Women’s Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Randomized Trial was to:

  To assess whether a major increase in vegetable, fruit, and fiber intake and a decrease in dietary fat intake reduces the risk of recurrent and new primary breast cancer and all-cause mortality among women with previously treated early stage breast cancer.

  The conclusion of this “controlled trial of dietary change in 3088 women previously treated for early stage breast cancer” was:

  Among survivors of early stage breast cancer, adoption of a diet that was very high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber and low in fat did not reduce additional breast cancer events or mortality during a 7.3-year follow-up period.

  This made headlines all over the world. This is the proof people were waiting for – that changes to your diet has no impact on breast cancer. Medical practitioners, dieticians and the public now have the evidence that there is no need to change your diet.

  It appears that the authors are deliberately being deceptive.

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  23 January 2014