Low-Fat Diet Helps Genetically Predisposed Animals Avoid Liver Cancer

In a study comparing two strains of mice, one susceptible to developing cancer and the other not, researchers found that a high-fat diet predisposed the cancer-susceptible strain to liver cancer, and that by switching to a low-fat diet early in the experiment, the same high-risk mice avoided the malignancy. The switched mice were lean rather than obese and had healthy livers at the end of the study.

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Filed under: Liver Disease / Hepatitis on June 22nd, 2009