2 - The Michigan Daily - Wednesday, March 10, 1999 NATION!X ORLD Study: breast cancer, fat unrelated Newsday Doctors have long counseled women to lower their Intake of dietary fat to reduce the risk of breast cancer, arong other reasons, but a new study following tens of thousands of women for more than 14 years has found no relationship between fat consumed and breast cancer. But the controversial finding is hard to accept for some physicians and other scientists who believe that the study is flawed. "This is not a clinical trial, and you can never be certain that the results are connected, because it is dif- ficult to measure fat intake in such a study," said Jacques Rossouw, deputy director of the Women's Health Initiative of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "Reporting is notoriously inaccurate." The Nurses Health Study relied on the results of self-reporting. The women, aged 30 to 55, answered questionnaires about their eating habits every four years. Harvard scientists have been studying 88,795 women in the Nurses' Health Study since 1980. The study was designed to follow healthy women over time to see who gets cancer, heart disease and other illnesses and what life factors may correlate with their conditions. Michelle Holmes, the lead investigator of the new findings that appear in the Journal of the American Medical Association, said that they have now asked questions about diet and fat intake four times during the study period. Less than 1 percent of the women - between 500 and 1,000 - consumed a low-fat diet in "one study doesn't answer this question." - Charles Hennekens Chief of preventative medicine for Brigham and Women's Hospital which 20 percent or fewer of the calories consumed were derived from fat, and 20 cases of breast cancer were detected among this group, Holmes said. According to Holmes, their low fat intake had no impact on their risk for breast cancer. In fact, the sci- entists reported that their risk seemed to be 15 percent higher than those eating an average Western diet, although Holmes admits that the numbers are too small to make it statistically significant. The researchers also looked at types of fat ingested, and again found no correlation. Even Charles Hennekens, another investigator in the massive epidemiological project and chief of pre- ventive medicine at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, agrees that the controversy is not resolved. "The data is not complete" he said. "One study doesn't answer this question." Michael Thun heads epidemiology research at the American Cancer Society in Atlanta and believes that nutritional factors do play an important role, but sci- entists have yet to unravel the complex relationship. The notion that dietary fat was an important con- tributor to breast cancer grew from population stud- ies that found Asian women had far less breast can- cer and their traditional diet was vastly different from the American diet. Asians consumed only 20 percent of their calories from fat. The Western diet is between 30 percent and 35 percent. Also, animals fed a high fat diet were prone to develop certain kinds of tumors. Rossouw believes that the end of the debate may come in the year 2005 when results from the Women's Health Initiative are completed. Since 1993, almost 50,000 women were enrolled in a study to assess women's health. Half the group has been following a 20 percent fat diet. "This will bring a totally different interpretation to the table," Rossouw said. "We are actually manipulating diet to see if it has an effect." Moshe Shike, director of the cancer prevention and wellness program at New York's Memorial Sloan- Kettering, agrees. "This study may be important aca- demically but not practically. We still recommend a low-fat diet for optimal health" Indeed, there is solid evidence that a high-fat diet increases the risk for cardiovascular disease, and sci- entists are still trying to figure out whether certain fats are better for your health than others. For example, a diet high in mono-unsaturated fats like olive oil has been shown to have positive effects, while fats from animal products are believed to be harmful. AROUND THE NATION RJR Nabisco to leave cigarette business NEW YORK - RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp., the food-and-tobacco conglom- erate whose brands include Camels and Winstons, Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, is getting out of the cigarette business. RJR said yesterday it will sell its international tobacco business to Japan's biggest tobacco company for $7.8 billion and spin off its domestic tobacco opera. tions as a separate company. The moves come amid rising legal challenges to cigarettes and falling numbers of U.S. smokers - something tobacco opponents were quick to note. "The tobacco industry is in deep trouble," said Ahron Leichtman, executive director of Citizens for a Tobacco-Free Society. RJR said its aim is merely to help the cigarette and food companies achieve greater success as separate entities. The $17 billion conglomerate has been under pressure for several years from major stockholders to separate its food and tobacco businesses because the tobac- co is considered a drag on RJR's stock. Some investors won't put their money in any company that has tobacco holdings, out of either opposition to smoking or fea that lawsuits will hurt profits. 'I (Hong Kong Style cafeteria 510 E. Liberty, Ann Arbor, MI 48104 BUSINESS HOUR Mon. - Sat. 11a.m. - 1p delivery with this ad! Sunday 12 Noon - 9r Mon. - Sat 11a.m. - 2p.m., 5p. -9 :30pm. 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"We know we have a product here that will absolutely knock the socks off the competition," Amtrak President George Warrington said at a gala opening attended by more than 1,000 employees. "USAir, Delta, General Motors, Ford, you name it, only Amtrak's Acela will provide a very special journey for customers who will travel downtown to down- town." In addition to pledging speed, Amtrak promised an unparalleled service. Acela's snub-nosed, silver- and-turquoise trains will have busi- ness-class seats with audio and power jacks, special check-in areas and concierge service, plus dining cars with meeting tables, upgraded fo and beer on tap. Worker productivity surges with higher pay WASHINGTON --The productivity of American workers surged at the fastest pace in six years at the end of 1998. Healthy gains in productivity throughout the year gave Americans their biggest after-inflation pay increase in 12 years. Productivity - the output per hour of work of nonfarm, non-supervisory workers - raced ahead at a 4.6 per- cent annual rate during the final three months of last year, driven by com- puters and other high-tech innova- tions. That was the best rate since the fourth quarter of 1992 and even bet- ter than the 3.7 percent estimated' a month ago, the Labor Departme said yesterday. S 0p.m. 'p.M. 2 0 WASHINGTON (AP) - A growing number of minors are buying alcohol on the Internet, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R- Utah) said as he called yesterday for a. federal crackdown on interstate ship- ments that violate state laws. To open a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Hatch, the panel's chair, showed a video of a Utah news story about a 13-year-old girl ordering beer on her computer using an adult's credit card. "If that does not bother you, it should," Hatch said. "There is something very wrong with the level of control that is being exercised over these sales." Rep. Robert Ehrlich (R-Md.) said that as the Internet has grown, so has its use for the sale of alcohol. He said the market in illegal sales of alcohol on the Internet is $1 billion a year. Hatch introduced a bill that would toughen enforcement of existing laws prohibiting the importation or trans- portation of alcohol to minors. He said it is a federal issue that should be han- dled in federal court. The legislation would grant state attorneys general the power to file actions in federal court. Supporting Hatch's position was Wayne Klein, assistant attorney general of Utah, who said federal help is needed because modern technology has made the fight tougher. But John De Luca, presi- dent and chief executive officer of the Wine Institute, said the bill would hurt small wineries that depend on the Internet as the only means of selling their product. AROUND THE WORLD JUG Continued from Page 1 and homemade potatoes that have made the restaurant a favorite will stay. "But we are going to add more variety of salads and pastas." Porikos said some of these changes will be based on customer approval. "We will run specials and see what people like" he said. But Porikos said prices should remain "pretty much" the same. "I know the student body and faculty want to see reasonable prices and good food," he said. LSA sophomore Mark Sherer said he hopes the modifications will be minimal, explaining that he considers the current furnishings and food at the Brown Jug to be "part of the college mystique. "It's down scale and comfortable," he said. Porikos said he will try his hardest to "keep close to the character" of the restau- rant. "I am not going to do anything drastic,' he said. Chinese leaders accuse Dalai Lama BEIJING -In the runup to the 40th anniversary of an uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet, senior Chinese leaders have attacked the Dalai Lama as the source of all trouble in Tibet and charged that he was lying when he recently expressed wiiiingness to hold negotiations with Beijing. China also has tightened security on its southern border with Nepal and India to prevent anti-Chinese demon- strations in Tibet, according to Chinese and Nepalese press reports. Security in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, was said to be tight, with police manning checkpoints and being particularly vigilant with Tibetan monks, who comprise the van- guard of the Tibetan independence movement in China. The Chinese broadside against the Dalai Lama was launched last week by Raidi, the chair of the People's Congress of Tibet, and Legqog, the head of Tibet's government. Both men, who each use only one name, were in Beijing for the yearly meeting of the National People's Congress, China's rubber-stamp parliament. The Dalai Lama "is the chief repre- sentative of the feudal serf system," declared Raidi, who has said th before Tibet was invaded by Chines Communists in 1950 he lived as a slave. "Under his rule, the Tibetan peo- ple were reduced "to animal status." French heads acquitted of crime PARIS - Former prime minister Laurent Fabius and another form@ 'minister were acquitted of manslaugh- ter yesterday in the cases of seven peo- ple given AIDS-tainted blood transfu- sions. Former health minister Edmond Herve was convicted in two of.the cases, one fatal, but the sentence was waived. AIDS patients immediately decried the verdicts, rendered by a special court composed of 15 legislators and judges. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. BUDGET Continued from Page 1 Rep. Jon Jellema (R-Grand Haven) said one problem with the new method is that the data upon which the four tiers are based is reported differently by each university, which causes inconsisten- cies in funding. "What the hearings allow is for the universities to come in and present that information in its most favorable light," Jellema said. Rae Goldsmith, a spokesperson for Central Michigan University President Leonard Plachta, said the committee members should factor the presidents' presentations into the final budget determination - but not rely solely on administrators' requests. Plachta addressed the committee at last Wednesday's session. "The hearings are a necessary part of the process, but they're not the only part of the process," Goldsmith said. But several factors have made this year's hearings a more important means for legislators to gain a full perspective on the universities' needs, Goldsmith said. "It is especially complex this year," Goldsmith said. 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