Low Fat Milk linked to Cancer

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Wow, this confirms our position! Whole milk = good Skim milk = junk food

These epidemiologists sorted through the nasty rumors that drinking any milk is

cancerous. Note that no data was collected in this study about rBGH,

PASTEURIZATION,

GRASS FED or ORGANIC milk here, this is all commercial factory farm milk, but

still....

even that whole mlik had health benefits and REDUCES cancer. Just think what a

study

using the milk we drink would show!

Will

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Nonfat, Low-Fat Milk Linked to Cancer

NEW YORK (Jan. 2) - The amount of calcium and vitamin D in the diet appears to

have little

or no impact on the risk of prostate cancer, but the consumption of low-fat or

nonfat milk

may increase the risk of the malignancy, according to the results of two studies

published

in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

Dietary calcium and dairy products have been thought to increase the risk of

prostate

cancer by affecting vitamin D metabolism. Data from several prospective studies

have

supported an association, but many other studies have failed to establish a

link.

Krupa, AP

It has long been thought that dairy products can interfere with the

cancer-fighting

properties of vitamin D, but the consumption of low-fat or nonfat milks appears

to

increase the risk that the tumors become malignant.

To explore this topic further, Dr. Song-Yi Park, from the University of Hawaii

in Honolulu,

and colleagues, analyzed data from subjects enrolled in the Multiethnic Cohort

Study. This

study, conducted between 1993 and 2002, included adults between 45 and 75 years

old,

were primarily from five different ethnic or racial groups, and lived in

California or Hawaii.

A total of 82,483 men from the study completed a quantitative food frequency

questionnaire and various factors, such as weight, smoking status, and education

levels

were also noted, Park's group said.

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During an average follow-up period of 8 years, 4,404 men developed prostate

cancer.

There was no evidence that calcium or vitamin D from any source increased the

risk of

prostate cancer. This held true across all racial and ethnic groups.

In an overall analysis of food groups, the consumption of dairy products and

milk were not

associated with prostate cancer risk, the authors found. Further analysis,

however,

suggested that low-fat or nonfat milk did increase the risk of localized tumors

or non-

aggressive tumors, while whole milk decreased this risk.

In a similar analysis, Dr. Yikyung Park, from the National Cancer Institute at

National

Institutes (NIH) of Health in Bethesda, land, and colleagues investigated

the

relationship of calcium and vitamin D and prostate cancer in 293,888 men

enrolled in the

NIH-American Association of Retired Persons Diet and Health Study, conducted

between

1995 and 2001. The average follow-up period was 6 years.

No link between total or supplemental dietary calcium and the total number of

non-

advanced prostate cancer cases was noted. Total calcium intake was tied to

advanced and

fatal disease, but both associations fell short of statistical significance.

Similar to the first study's findings, skim milk was linked with advanced

prostate cancer.

Calcium from non-dairy food, by contrast, was tied to a reduced risk of

non-advanced

prostate cancer.

" Our findings do not provide strong support for the hypothesis that calcium and

dairy

foods increase the risk of prostate cancer. The results from other

large...studies, with

adequate numbers of advanced and fatal prostate cancers, may shed further light

on this

question, " Park's team concludes.

SOURCE: American Journal of Epidemiology, January 1, 2008.