Re: Red Meat NO GOOD, Veggies no protection.... NOW WHAT?

From: usual suspect (support_at_our.troops)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 14:41:24 GMT

peril wrote:
>>>The fruit and vegetable study, also published in the same journal
>>>included more than 285,000 European woman. It found that fruit and
>>>vegetable consumption did not protect against developing breast
>>>cancer.
>>>
>>>
>>>"We can't even eat enough food to get the antioxidants we need .. "
>>>
>>>The question would / should be .. the study of European women did NOT
>>>address whether or not they are STILL eating .. meat ..?
>>
>>It's irrelevant. Other studies have shown *increased* incidence (albeit
>>with a wide confidence interval) of breast cancer among vegetarian women.
>>
>> We found that a vegetarian diet was associated with a 15%
>> reduction in mortality from ischaemic heart disease. This was
>> *NOT SIGNIFICANT* and was LESS THAN the roughly 30% reductions
>> REPORTED IN EARLIER ANALYSES of this cohort.... A vegetarian
>> diet was also associated with a *SIGNIFICANT INCREASE* in
>> mortality from breast cancer. However, the confidence interval
>> was wide.... The numbers of deaths for individual cancer sites
>> were small and the mortality ratios have wide confidence
>> intervals. The 41% reduction in mortality from lung cancer
>> associated with daily consumption of fresh fruit was *NOT
>> SIGNIFICANT*....
>> http://tinyurl.com/4q6fe

Snip gibberish. Address the issues, Lesley, rather than pasting crap
from pseudo-religious sites and from your pseudoscience sites like ecologos.

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