Several years ago, I wrote an article for U.S. News and World Report about the large and well-known Harvard study of nurses that is often in the news for its findings about women’s health. So I take a special interest when the study is in the news, as it is again today for its’ latest finding: that the risk of breast cancer, especially the type I was diagnosed with, estrogen-receptor-positive breast cancer in pre-menopausal women, could be linked to eating red meat.
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