Most of my friends don’t relish having a mammogram, but they dread a diagnosis of breast cancer even more. This rite of middle age continues to get a lot of attention in the press. For instance, Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Michael Roizen wrote in their column, “The You Docs,” in the Houston Chronicle, “After menopause, nearly one in six breast-cancer cases is linked to excess body fat; so is diabetes. Women with diabetes are at far higher risk of heart disease and (this is new) at higher risk...
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