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So now I've heard everything.  Stay lean and fit to avoid breast cancer.  Take statins if your cholesterol is high.  Now, eat plenty of tomatoes if you want to stave it off. A new study has found that a  tomato-rich diet may help protect at-risk postmenopausal women from breast cancer,  according to newswise.com.  And I thought tomatoes were only good for the prostate! "Breast cancer risk rises in postmenopausal women as their body mass index climbs," the Web site notes. "The study found eating a diet high in tomatoes had a positive effect on the level of hormones that play a role in regulating fat and sugar metabolism." “Eating fruits and vegetables, which are rich in essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals such as lycopene, conveys significant benefits," newswise quotes  the study’s first author, Adana Llanos, PhD, MPH, who is an assistant professor of epidemiology at Rutgers University, who completed the research while she...

Something new to worry about.  Prostate cancer and fish oil.  Will these doctors ever get it right? A new study has shown that too much fish oil (and fish) could lead to prostate cancer.  Say what?  Writes David L. Katz, MD, MPH, director of Yale University's Prevention Research Center, this recent headline caught his attention: "Fish oils may raise prostate cancer risks, study confirms." Katz neither confirms nor denies the possibility that the study may be correct.  Instead, he reports, "The study does not prove that fish oil intake causes prostate cancer. But nor is the study dismissible rubbish, as the large crowd of fish oil proponents gathered around it with harpoons in hand would like to contend." There were some steps taken that aren't usually in a study like this, and some that were.  "Blood was obtained from men at baseline as they enrolled into the study," he relates. Over time, more than 800 men developed prostate cancer, whi...