What Do We Tell Our Female Patients Now?

From today's New York Times: So what do women do now? The results of two major studies over the past two weeks have questioned the value of two widely recommended measures: calcium pills and vitamin D to prevent broken bones, and low-fat diets to ward off heart disease and breast and colon cancer. How can we recommend low fat diets and vitamin supplements to our patients without being dishonest with them? I expect this question is be opening debated come Monday in our offices and examination rooms. Evidence based medicine is what we look towards to counsel our patients but EBM can also confuse us as well.