Your Health: Sep. 13, 1999

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PROTEIN POWER Researchers have long thought that what you eat may help you prevent breast cancer. Now they're finding that diet may help you survive after the disease has been diagnosed. Data on 120,000 nurses suggest that protein from poultry and dairy foods--but not from red meat--may reduce by one-third the risk of dying of cancer. Cutting down on fat, however, doesn't seem to make a bit of difference.

DEJA VU DRUG A largely abandoned 30-year-old drug may soon be back in pharmacies. A major study shows that Aldactone, used together with newer drugs like ACE inhibitors, can cut...

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