7th February 2008
Dietary supplements enriched in omega-3 fatty acids, a component of fish oil, may help cancer patients gain weight, new research suggests. Read the rest of this entry »
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7th January 2008
Results of a prospective Swedish cohort study of mainly premenopausal women at enrollment does not provide any evidence that total dietary fat or intake of monounsaturated fat (MUFA), polyunsaturated fat (PUFA), or saturated fat (SFA) is associated with overall breast cancer risk.However, according to Dr. Marie Lof from the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, “Our results suggest that types of fat (MUFA, PUFA, SFA) may have different effects on risk between breast cancer occurring before and after age 50 years.”
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