A low-fat diet may decrease postmenopausal breast cancer deaths

https://www.facingourrisk.org/XRAY/low-fat-diet-reduces-risk-of-breast-cancer

Full article: https://academic.oup.com/jn/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jn/nxz107/5512736

Research reported at the 2019 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology establishes a link between dietary fat intake and its impact on postmenopausal women’s risk of dying from breast cancer. (6/13/19)

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