Vegetables and Fruits Double Breast Cancer Survival Rates

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Screwing The Data: Vegetables and Fruits Double Breast Cancer Survival Rates


Two new reports from the Women’s Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) study show that diets including at least five fruit and vegetable servings a day reduce mortality by nearly 50 percent in women previously diagnosed with breast cancer.
Full article, Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine, July 17, 2007

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But you wouldn't know that from reading the corporate press, hawking the propaganda of the AMA (American Medication Association, right?). One of the main enforcement arms of the pharmaceutical drug cartel (along with the Federal Drug Advocates, a/k/a the FDA). Check out the article from the Hearst, er, "SF" Chronicle, cheerleading BigPharma...

TLC
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Study: More fruits and veggies don't prevent breast cancer recurrence

A low-fat diet loaded with extra servings of fruits and vegetables doesn't prevent recurrences of breast cancer any better than simply following the federal nutrition guidelines, say Bay Area researchers who studied the diets of more than 3,000 women for seven years.

Cancer doctors and nutritionists said they were disappointed over results of the study, which are published today in a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Full AP/AMA claptrap, SF Chronicle, July 17, 2007