Low-fat, high-produce diet doesn't cut breast cancer return - CNN.com

Over the past year we have seen studies suggest that vitamins do or do not work. That tomatoes may or may not help. That tea is good for you or not. So while not unexpected, I was somewhat disappointed when I read the following:

Low-fat, high-produce diet doesn't cut breast cancer return - CNN.com:

"...study found no benefit from a mega-veggies-and-fruit diet over the U.S.-recommended servings of five fruits and vegetables a day -- more than most Americans get....

The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.

It sends us back to the drawing board,' said Susan Gapstur of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, who wasn't involved in the new study but co-wrote an accompanying editorial in the journal.

'Should we really have focused on dietary components like fruits, vegetables and fat?' Gapstur asked. 'Or should we be focusing, in addition to diet, on lifestyle factors including physical activity and weight?""

From Time.com:

"Appearing in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the study, called the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) Randomized Trial, found that diets very high in fruits and vegetables do not appear to reduce the risk of breast cancer recurrence. This latest paper is one of several recent inquiries into the role of diet in cancer risk. Despite the widely held belief that the right diet can help fight cancer, recent findings have failed to definitely prove that."

It does get frustrating. What do we know? Sometimes it seems like we are not much better than we were centuries ago. I was thinking that when reading the tea study yesterday (specifically does that open up the whole mess of it not only being what you eat/drink, but also when, with what other foods, etc. Talk about a research nightmare!).