Study - Decrease your risk of breast cancer

I'm going to link to the blog post that brought this study to my attention, but first I want to say something about all the articles in the media in the past several years that "low fat diets don't work, Americans are eating less fat and gaining more weight than ever", and "butter is back" etc etc. We've been "carpet bombed" with such articles.

All of these articles were (and continue to be) examples of manipulation of science to show a certain result. Real studies have no agenda, and the "models under test" are carefully designed to prevent the influence of agenda.

Journalists are human, and all of us humans have the same problem - we all love to hear good things about our bad habits. That makes all of us easy prey for the "science as marketing" ploy of large vested interest groups. Who doesn't want to hear high fat diets are healthy, eat all the butter you want!

The butter is back study was funded by the dairy industry. The low fat diets don't work was looking at people who went from one junk food diet to a (slightly) different junk food diet.

Here is the truth that real studies show again and again. Eat whole foods as close to their "alive" condition as possible, in simple combinations, without excessive use of sugars, oils, and salt.

They also show, again and again, the greater the ratio of fruits and vegetables to animal foods in your diet the better are health outcomes over both short and long terms.

I used to think nutrition was complicated because of all the marketing propaganda we are bombarded with. It's not, it's simple: eat whole foods, mostly plants.

Learn how to do this! It is not that difficult, and your body and mind will both thank you. If you are a great cook, get a cookbook that will help you see how to make healthy whole foods tasty. I think this one may be a good start:
Straight-Up-Food-Delicious-Plant-based

If you are into simple food preparation (that would be me:) eat a lot of fruits and have big salads at dinner, couldn't be easier (and yet delicious).

Here is the blog where I learned about this study:
A Low-Fat Diet Increases Breast Cancer Survival

and a direct link to the study:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28654363/