During my daily reading of World news at yahoo.com, I noticed an article about what foods to eat to avoid breast cancer. Of course, I had to look being female and all....

http://health.yahoo.com/breast-canc...t-breast-cancer


*sigh* I'm so sick of this crap....

The sad thing is most of the folks that read this will believe it...and yahoo.com reaches a lot of people everyday. WHY DO THEY POST CRAP LIKE THIS W/O SIGNIFICANT PROOF???!?!?!?!?!?!?

RED MEAT WILL KILL US ALLLLLLLL!!!!!!!

Ugh.

Page 72 of Gary Taubes' book "Good Calories Bad Calories" talks about the Nurses Health Study, a massive, long-term study of the diets and health of a huge number of nurses. (don't want to make up numbers, trust me, it was a lot of nurses)

One finding they came up with was that for every 5% of increase in saturated fat calories replacing carbohydrate calories, the risk of breast cancer reduced by 9%.

Most of the fat-heart hypothesis, especially the fat-cholesterol-heart studies were done on men. When you do an analysis of the studies on women, it seems to point to the higher the cholesterol, the greater the overall longevity. Low cholesterol in all of the studies points to a higher overall mortality. They just don't point that out because it goes against the accepted wisdom.

Read the book, it's quite good.

Plane