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Gina Kolata points out,
once again, that diet and exercise have not been shown to affect breast
cancer rates. Massive, well-run observational studies and randomized
controlled trials turn up nothing. This finding appears to be
unacceptable; popular culture rejects it utterly. Women’s magazines
continue to preach the holy gospel of five fruits and vegetables a day.
Doctors continue to tell patients at high risk of breast cancer that
diet matters. The director of one of the (fruitless?) studies tells
Kolata that doctors need to “rethink the studies.” Diet and exercise
“are likely quite important, but we just aren’t getting the answers” ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)