Milk and Human Health
 | Prostate cancer The best evidence linking prostate cancer to milk consumption appears to be that for aggressive and fatal prostate cancers, but not prostate cancer in general. The relative risk of such cancers in men who consume milk is 2-3 times that of the general population, whose absolute risk is about 2-3% of dying from the disease over a lifetime. The fact that calcium consumption seems more strongly linked to such cancers than milk itself suggests that calcium may play a specific role, says Edward Giovannucci, who has studied milk consumption and prostate cancer. |
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