"Vegetarians have the best diet. They have the lowest rates of coronary disease of any group in the country ... they have a fraction of our heart attack rate, and they have only 40 percent of our cancer rate."

—William Castelli, M.D., director of the Framingham Heart Study, the longest-running clinical study in medical history

For more information, visit these sites:

• The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: "Foods for Cancer Prevention"
• The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: "What's Wrong With Dairy Products?"
• The Wall Street Journal: "Study Finds Dietary Changes May Reverse Prostate Cancer"
• "Cancer and the Vegetarian Diet," by William Harris, M.D.
• Statistics Comparing Breast Cancer Diagnoses to Animal-Food Intake
• American Cancer Society Promotes Cancer
• WebMD Health: “Diet Linked to Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma”

Or, read these books:

• Healthy Eating for Life for Women
• Healthy Eating for Life to Prevent and Treat Cancer
• The McDougall Program for Women

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