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SEVERAL MONTHS AGO (NR, April 15, 1977), I paid my respects to Panic in the Pantry, a marvelous refutation of the back-to-nature, additives-cause-cancer fad that has dominated recent thinking on nutrition.

Now Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, co-author of that excellent volume, has written another on a related topic: a handbook called Preventing Cancer (W. W. Norton, $9.95), which turns out to be extremely useful not only because it offers specific words of caution on the cancer problem, but also because it puts this dreadful subject into rational perspective, separating fact from lurid fancy.

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SEVERAL MONTHS AGO (NR, April 15, 1977), I paid my respects to Panic in the Pantry, a marvelous refutation of the back-to-nature, additives-cause-cancer fad that has dominated recent thinking on nutrition.

Now Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, co-author of that excellent volume, has written another on a related topic: a handbook called Preventing Cancer (W. W. Norton, $9.95), which turns out to be extremely useful not only because it offers specific words of caution on the cancer problem, but also because it puts this dreadful subject into rational perspective, separating fact from lurid fancy.