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First of all I love this site!! Lots of great information. Anyway, I only had a chance to glance at the Wall Street Journal today (while I was waiting for my Lean Cuisine to cook in the micorwave at work!).

The article was about the results from a 15 year study that the NIH was conducting on 3 women's issues:

Impat of Low Fat Diet on Breast Cancer Risks
Heart Health Impact from Hormone Replacement Therapy
Bone Health with Calcium and Vitamin D supplements

Anyway, what came out of this huge study wat that there was no statistical significance reported between those that ate a low fat diet and those who ate a "normal" diet and their risk of developing breast cancer. The media apparently focused on the whole "Eating a Low Fat Diet won't help you fight against Breast Cancer" point and that is what got out to the news organizations.

The article today talks about how severly flawed the study was (groups were not 100% equal in fat content eaten, only 14% of the "low-fat" group stuck with the low-fat guidlines, etc. The major point that did not get emphasized is that for the group of women who started out with the highest fat content diet and cut their fat intake by 12 %, their breast cancer risk was cut by 22%. Apparently this one was not touted and was put in the back of a 2 page summary and not part of the "big findings". I will take the article home with me tonight in case anyone wants the details.

I remember meeting with a second opinion Onc when I was first diagnosed who told me that eating a low fat diet would not help cut my risk of BC recurrance and even though I had no data to support that, intuitivley I thought that it did not make any sense. No wonder so many people get confused!

Natalie