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A New Whey to Prevent Cancer?(Thomas M. Badger)(Brief Article)

Agricultural Research | October 1, 2000 | Copyright

Researchers are only beginning to discover the links between dietary choices and health consequences. Now they've taken a major step toward understanding one of these links.

A team of ARS-funded investigators--Reza Hakkak, Martin J.J. Ronis, and J. Craig Rowlands--led by neuroendocrinologist and nutritionist Thomas M. Badger, has found that a modified whey protein, which Badger developed, prevents breast cancer in some laboratory rats.

It's an important medical discovery, considering that 180,000 U.S. women develop breast cancer each year--and 1 in 8 women will…

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