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by SwetDrems 3426 days ago
I thought we were under the consensus that these large scale associative studies were not accurate/effective in predicting causal effects, especially in nutrition.

I can't find any studies right now, but I remember reading about mechanistic explanations for plant compounds such as isothiocyanate and resveratrol in reducing and even completely suppressing tumour growth.