Year in Review: Top 10 News Stories on Fats in 2006

Could eating a low-fat diet help prevent the recurrence of breast cancer? A long-term study of more than 2,400 post-menopausal women who had been treated for early-stage breast cancer suggests that it might. The first group was randomly chosen to follow a low-fat diet, consuming about 33 grams of fat a day—around 20 percent of calories. The second group followed a normal diet, eating around 51 grams of fat a day, or just under 30 percent of calories.

Five years on, researchers found that the women in the low-fat group reduced their risk of recurrence by 24 percent. But surprisingly, women in the low-fat group whose tumors had been estrogen-negative, lowered their risk of recurrence by 42 percent. Read More.

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