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  1. 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
  2. Health & Medicine

    Dairy fats cut colon cancer risk

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

    By Janet Raloff

  3. 19613

    Several decades ago, I heard of the anecdotal correlation between the rise of hydrogenated oils in our foods and the rise of colon cancer. The Swedish study mentioned in this article that correlated high dairy-fat intake with lower risk of colon cancer might be reexamined to see if it reveals a correlation between intake of […]

    By Science News
  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.