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Diet and lifestyle -- In the cancer fight, eating well is the best revenge

We all know that eating fruits, vegetables and soy products provides essential nutrition for a healthy lifestyle, while obesity leads to the opposite. Yet proving the effect of nutrition, or obesity, on cancer is an experimental challenge and a focus for scientists. According to emerging evidence being presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the AACR, eating well might still be one of the more pleasurable ways to prevent cancer and promote good health.

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