The largest prospective nutrition study ever published suggests
animal fat may play a role in the development of pancreatic
cancer. Largest Study Ever, Last year, … pancreatic cancer ate
Patrick Swayze alive. Before him, it was Pavarroti. Pancreatic
cancer is one of the deadliest cancers—less than 5% of victims
even make it out 5 years. Thankfully it’s rare—only strikes down
about 30, or 40… thousand Americans every year. But how do you
study something that’s so rare? You bring to bear the largest
study ever. The NIH-AARP study is currently following a half
million American men and women in their 50s and 60s. It is the
largest forward-looking nutrition study ever conducted. What did
we just learn from it about pancreatic cancer? Well we’ve known
pancreatic cancer was a lifestyle-related disease, related to
smoking, and the dietary intake of fat, but what kind of fat?
Enter: the NIH-AARP study. What do you think they found? Who
thinks pancreatic cancer is associated with beef fat? Bacon?
Chicken? Fish? Dairy,