Some studies have found that eating more fat might be linked to colorectal cancer, but others didn’t find any connection—and one big study of women found no link at all.

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Dietary fat, coronary heart disease, and cancer: a historical review.

Narrative Review

2006 Nov

This study looked at whether eating more or less fat affects colon cancer, and found that in most individual studies, the link was mixed — and in the big WHI study, there was no clear connection. So it agrees with the claim.

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Dietary fat, coronary heart disease, and cancer: a historical review.

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DOI: 10.1016/J.YPMED.2006.07.013

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A big study on women’s health found that eating more or less fat didn’t seem to change their risk of getting heart disease or breast cancer, and other similar studies saw the same thing.

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A big study on women found that eating more or less fat doesn’t seem to make you more or less likely to get heart disease or breast cancer.

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In the past, people noticed that countries where people ate more fat also had more breast cancer and heart disease, but later studies on individuals didn’t prove that eating more fat actually causes those diseases.

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