In February, 2006, the Journal of the American Medical Association released the results of a long-term study of women and diet.

The surprising results were that those women assigned a low fat diet had the same rates of breast cancer, colon cancer, heart attacks and strokes as those who ate whatever they pleased.

Dr. Jules Hirsch, physician in chief emeritus at Rockefeller University in New York stated: "These studies are revolutionary...They put a stop to this era of thinking that we have all the information we need to change the whole national diet and make everybody healthy."

This is not the first time that conventional wisdom about nutrition and health have been tossed on its ear by continuing medical studies.

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