colon cancer and colonoscopies

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@KarlGauss

Here is almost the first paper I hit on for a search on dietary fiber and colon cancer. Note the date, 2012. I can give you more but I’m gonna wait until you cough up something from this century.

It’s funny how you’ve flip-flopped on this issue. Here’s a post of yours from a previous thread:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=8468898&postcount=11

@KarlGauss

I’ll go first.

While not literally testing a “balanced” diet, the diet in the following three randomized control trials all included high fibre, low fat, high vegetables, and high fruit - so approaching, if not identical to, what I think a reasonable person would call “balanced”:

• a low fat diet (with lots of fibre, veggies, and fruit) doesn’t reduce the development of colon cancer

• a low fat diet (with lots of fibre, veggies, and fruit) doesn’t reduce the development of invasive breast cancer

• a low fat diet (with lots of fibre, veggies, and fruit) doesn’t reduce the development of cardiovascular disease

So does a “balanced diet” with fruit/vegetable/fiber prevent colon cancer or doesn’t it?

Were you misrepresenting the data back then or are you misrepresenting it now?