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“Flawed Study Interpretation”
Here I am asking everyone to eat lots of fruits and veggies to prevent cancer.
Here I am asking everyone to eat lots of fruits and veggies to prevent cancer but
But how does that jibe with this study, published last summer?
how does that jive with the study published last summer women diagnosed
Women diagnosed with breast cancer were asked to eat a diet
with breast cancer were asked to eat a
very high in fruits and veggies to see if they’d live longer,
diet very high in fruits and veggies to
and they did not live any longer, leading to headlines like this:
see if they'd live longer and they did not live any longer leading to headlines
“Diet high in fruits and veggies of no particular benefit…”
like this diet high in fruits and veggies no particular benefit extra
and “Extra servings of fruits and veggies fail…”
servings of fruits and veggies fail and
And you can always count on the British tabloids:
you can always count on those BRIC
“Cancer fruit flop” and veggies “blow.” Before you empty out your crisper, though, just what exactly did they mean
tabloids cancer fruit flop and veggies blow before you empty out your crisper though just what exactly did they mean
by “very high” consumption?
by very high consumption well at
At baseline, before the study began,
baseline before the study began these
these women were eating 3.5 servings of fruit a day. Then, after three years of nutrition counseling,
women were eating 3.5 servings of fruit a day then after three years of nutrition counseling cooking classes
cooking classes, and newsletters meant to boost fruit and veggie consumption,
newsletters meant to to boost fruit and
they started out at 3.5, and ended up at the “very high” intake of… 3.4. Fruit consumption went down.
veggie consumption they started out at 3.5 and ended up at the very high intake of 3.4 fruit consumption went down no
No wonder they didn’t live any longer!
wonder they didn't live any longer
Now they did eat a few more vegetables, but combined, after three years,
and now they did eat a few more vegetables but combined after three
their fruit and vegetable consumption went up only 1.8 servings. That, pathetically, is conventional medicine’s idea of a diet “very high”
years their fruit and vegetable consumption only went out only went up 1.8 servings that pathetically is conventional medicines idea of a diet
in fruits and veggies.
very high in fruits and veggies
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