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Sustained weight loss in middle-age may lower breast cancer risk

(This December 17 story is refiled to add new paragraph 6, and adds lb/kg conversions in paras 4 and 5.) By Linda Carroll (Reuters Health) – In women over age 50, losing just four pounds and keeping the weight off can lower breast cancer risk, a new study suggests. Researchers who reviewed data from 180,000… Read More: Sustained weight loss in middle-age may lower breast cancer risk »

Black Adventists Have Lower Cancer and Death Rates

A new study published in the American Cancer Society’s journal Cancer reveals that the healthy Seventh-day Adventist lifestyle is linked with reduced cancer risk—specifically, for Black Americans, according to a press release from the journal’s publisher, Wiley. Until now, there has been little research on the effects of this lifestyle on cancer risk among Black… Read More: Black Adventists Have Lower Cancer and Death Rates »