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Old 03-16-2015, 09:42 PM   #2
rhondalea
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Re: Does 30 grams of fat per day reduce recurrence rates?

This is the study most of the articles you're reading is based on:

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/98/24/1767

The researcher, herself, wasn't sure if it was the low-fat diet or the weight loss. She also suggested the possibility that low-fat decreases insulin which leads to lower recurrence.

http://preventcancer.aicr.org/site/N...rl=0&abbr=pub_

In other words, they got a result that correlates low-fat with a lower recurrence rate, but they don't know whether the link is causal. Here's a link to the long-term follow-up:

http://www.onclive.com/conference-co...n-Intervention

It seems to indicate weight loss, not low-fat, as the key.

If I ate that little fat, I'd be very ill, so it's not even an option for me. I'm betting that sugar is the culprit, so I keep my carbs a little lower and my fat and protein a little higher.

Here's a 2014 article that postulates low-carb as a recurrence prevention method:

http://www.cancercenter.com/discussi...er-recurrence/

This is the study to which it refers:

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/content...65.EPI-13-1218
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