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Digest: Breast Cancer Twice, Maternal Diet, Processed Foods and Sickness, and Foraging For A Year

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Breasts: two great reasons to avoid trans fats. Trans-fats may hike breast cancer risk (Abstract)- “Writing in the American Journal of Epidemiology, Veronique Chajes from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) reports that high blood levels of trans fatty acids, but not cis fatty acids, was associated with a [...]

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What I’m Reading: The Old Way

I just finished reading The Old Way: A Story of the First People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. This is an exceptional book. It’s a very easy read, about 315 pages, which I finished in 5 days.
Ms. Thomas spent several years of her life living with the Ju/Wasi (aka Bushmen, San, !Kung) in the [...]

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