By Pankaj, US Correspondent, [RxPG] The ongoing nationwide Women's Healthy Eating and Living Study is trying to determine if a diet high in vegetables, fruit, and fiber and low in fat can reduce the recurrence of breast cancer in women. Researchers at the University of California-San Diego at La Jolla and other institutions looked at whether the techniques being used to help women consume this diet are working.
The study makes use of individual telephone counseling directed by registered dietitians as well as attendance at group cooking classes. The researchers found that in the first year of the study, involving more than 700 women, the volunteer participants "achieved large increases in intakes of vegetables, fruits and fiber and decreased intakes of fat." They conclude: "It is possible to facilitate major dietary change in women previously treated for breast cancer" using this type of motivational intervention.
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March 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association
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