I was surprised the magnitude was so large -- over 80 percent reduction in risk.

If the public and legislators come away saying, 'Oh, we can never get an answer from these scientists. It's useless to spend money testing diet' -- then a lot of damage will have been done. Nutrition is important. We've already learned a lot that offers people plenty of sound advice. But there is a lot more we can learn. We just have to approach it in a smarter way.

For prostate cancer, if you look around the world, there might be 50-fold or greater differences in rates; they're huge. There are also big differences, many-fold differences, around the world for breast cancer and colon cancer.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything

Yes, risk taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing-taking.

Risks are not that scary.If you don’t take a risk,it’s an insult to your capabilities and to your talents. When you demonstrate confidence, you show the world how much you believe in yourself and the stuff that you’re made of. Confidence is your own personal character.It’s inherent character of the inner self. When there is a lot of support, encouragement, and validation from the people around , it helps build up a confidence.