Low-fat Diet Helps Genetically Predisposed Animals Avoid Liver Cancer
Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 16:21
in Health & Medicine
In a study comparing two strains of mice, one susceptible to developing cancer and the other not, researchers found that a high-fat diet predisposed the cancer-susceptible strain to liver cancer, and that by switching to a low-fat diet early in the experiment, the same high-risk mice avoided the malignancy. The switched mice were lean rather than obese and had healthy livers at the end of the study.
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