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diet and nutrition  

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  • The importance of diet in maintaining health and preventing disease, including cancers of many anatomic sites, has been recognized for millennia. Most of the tens of thousands of scientific papers on the subject support the role of diet and nutrition in causing cancer or affecting survival. [Source: Encyclopedia of Cancer and Society; Diet and Nutrition]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-D1G06XZ8-C

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