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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski. Got a minute?

Let's say your diet hasn't been so great.

Maybe too much red meat, especially processed meat.

Maybe too many sugary soft drinks.

And maybe you've been eating like that for decades.

So what's the point of trying to make some helpful changes now

after the damage has presumably been done?

It is impressive that changes even very late in life, such as even being older and having a heart attack,

dietary change can within a matter of a few months drop our risk greatly of a recurrent heart attack or death.

Walter Willett, he chairs the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

He spoke at a January 15th forum on cancer and diet that wound up touching on diet and

health in general.

So it's never too late to make important changes.

For diabetes, also, that if we change our our diet almost immediately our risk of diabetes

goes down but that's not say you should just wait to your old to start living a healthy life

we're seeing in some studies now that what women ate as adolescents especially if they ate a lot

more red meat that affected breast cancer risk later in their life.

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