But the hypothesis was based on this association more or less, that looked at the rates of breast cancer across different countries and how much dietary fat those countries consumed and so you get a nice little scatter plot.

但以上假说,多少也基于一些合作研究,看看乳腺癌在不同国家,的发病率,那些国家在饮食中摄入了多少脂肪,然后就会得到一个不错的散点图

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As I mentioned before is one example on the risk for breast cancer in women, so you'd randomly assign half to following their usual diet, the other half to an intervention program where people are prescribed a low fact diet, given counseling and interventions from dieticians and things, and then you look to see what happens for risk as people go forward in time.

我之前提过,这例子研究的是,女性的乳腺癌发病率,你将随机选择其中一半人按一般习惯饮食,另一半人则参与一个干预计划,其中每人都要食用,由营养学家设计推荐的低脂肪菜单,然后再看随着时间推移,被试者的发病率是怎样变化的

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