'Hard-core adherents of the faddish Paleo diet like to crow that eating like our über-great ancestors is a way to beat the scourge of so-called “modern” diseases like cancer. So what to make of a recent study published in the journal Cell Metabolism that found people who eat lots of protein in middle age were more likely to die of cancer than those who eat less? How much more likely? Four times. That puts the increased cancer risk on par with smoking.'
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