Major diet study finds little effect on chronic disease in women
(February 9, 2006)
The nearly decade-long dietary-modification trial of the national Women's Health Initiative (WHI), which tested the effect of a diet low in total fat and high in fruits, vegetables and whole grains, showed that that diet had no statistically significant effect on rates of breast cancer, colon cancer, heart disease and stroke.
Results of the three arms of the trial were published yesterday in three papers in the Journal of the American Medical Association.