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Quality Carbs May Lower Pancreatic Cancer Risk & Doughnuts May Raise the Risk, Study Finds

Posted in Diabetes Articles by Jennifer Moore on November 27th, 2007

Note from Connie: As happens often, we're now getting more evidence that those superior, fiber-dense carbs can be a boon to your health. Jennifer teels us about a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology, which finds that a diet rich in fiber and whole grains may cut the risk of pancreatic cancer by 40%. Thanks to Joene Hendry of Reuters, we learned about the beneficial impact of fiber and whole grains in lowering the risk of pancreatic cancer. Indeed, June M. Chan, ScD, and her fellow researchers at the University of California, San Francisco examined the grain intake...