] Re: Stomach and throat cancer, meat iron and folate

[Guest guest]

Hi All,

" Quintiles of dietary zinc (median, mg/d)

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Q1 (6.5) Q2 (9.1) Q3 (11.5) Q4 (14.0) Q5 (18.6) "

Rodney wrote:

Is there any way we can find out how much zinc those in the highest

quintile of zinc intake were consuming? Too much zinc can also be a

problem I seem to remember. But I don't remember why, or how much is

too much.

--- In , Al Pater <old542000@y...>

wrote:

> Hi All,

>

> The pdf-available below paper finds that intakes of the the heme

iron that is found

> in meat associate with more stomach and throat cancer and folate

intake is

> significantly associated with fewer of these cancers.

>

> Lee DH, KE, Folsom AR, s DR Jr.

> Heme iron, zinc and upper digestive tract cancer: The Iowa Women's

Health Study.

> Int J Cancer. 2005 May 31;117(4):643-647 [Epub ahead of print]

> PMID: 15929082

Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@...

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