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5/02/2003

GIGO - A Reference to Food or to Junk Science Studies?

JunkScience Guru v. Food=Cancer Crowd

FOXNews.com - Will the waistline police ever leave us alone?

Last week, it was the World Health Organization's (search ) nutrition guidelines. This week it's "obesity causes cancer" and "fasting improves health."

Researchers from the American Cancer Society (search) alleged that overweight and obesity cause up to 14 percent of cancer deaths among men and up to 20 percent among women.

We're expected to swallow these results without scrutiny since the study was conducted by the ACS, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and involved 900,000 adults.

Instead, I'm choking on the absurdity.

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