Milk >>> Prostate Cancer

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Hi :

As regards my remarks on this issue: the Health Professionals

Followup Study found a doubling in the risk of advanced prostate

cancer, as you can see here:

" In a Harvard study of male health professionals, men who drank two

or more glasses of milk a day were almost twice as likely to develop

advanced prostate cancer as those who didn't drink milk at all. "

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html

And PMID: 1745489 found that milk consumption increased the risk of

prostate cancer by a factor of FIVE:

" There was a significant trend in risk as regards frequency of milk

consumption: compared with nondrinkers or occasional milk drinkers,

the relative risk (RR) was 1.2 (95% confidence interval, Cl, 0.7-1.9)

for 1 or 2 glasses per day and 5.0 (95% Cl 1.5-16.6) for 2 or more

glasses per day " .

So, obviously, milk is a food I take some trouble to de-emphasize.

Rodney.