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

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2006 Nov

This study says that eating less fat didn’t lower the risk of heart disease or breast cancer in women, just like the big WHI study found—and other studies agree too.

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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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