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  1. Health & Medicine

    Our big fat cancer statistics

    A new analysis of data from a 2002 report shows that obesity is the second-largest cause of cancer in the United States.

    By Katie Greene
  2. Health & Medicine

    Wearing your food

    A broccoli extract, applied to the skin, has been found to reduce the incidence of skin tumors in mice.

    By Katie Greene
  3. Health & Medicine

    Dairy fats cut colon cancer risk

    High-fat dairy foods appear to confer protection against colon cancer.

    By Janet Raloff
  4. Earth

    Sex and the sewage

    Chemicals in sewage sludge appear to have stunted the testes and fostered other reproductive-system changes in fetal lambs.