Starting in 1983, the cancer institute began pilot studies asking whether a diet study was even feasible.

As reactions to the estrogen and high-fiber diet studies show, years of such careless use of language can make preliminary evidence appear to be ironclad.

Four participants in the duplicate diet study, or 6% of the study population, had cadmium intakes higher than 0.4 mg per week.

Another week, another diet study.

In a pilot study of 100 people, we found the higher-fat Mediterranean diet study produced better long-term weight loss than low-fat, high-carb diets.

These studies included women who were treated and a control group that took placebos or, in the diet study, ate whatever they wanted.

In the diet study, the difference in breast cancer rates was not statistically different.

Many people in diet studies lost weight, gained it back, and went back on a diet before the end of the study.

Some of them were elaborate double-blind diet studies using a Feingold-type diet.

An influential comparative diet study was conducted in 1987 by Gross et al.