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Lowering Dietary Fat May Help Prevent Prostate Cancer

May 15 (HealthDay News)

Findings in mouse model hint of new treatment strategies for the disease. Eating less polyunsaturated fat, the kind often found in baked and fried goods, helps prevent prostate cancer in mice, according to researchers...More

Obesity contributes to global warming too

May 15, 2008/GENEVA (Reuters, www.freepublic.com)

Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said in the journal Lancet... More