Dairy Calcium May Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer
July 21, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
The risk of breast cancer is reduced by at least 45 % with increased intake of dietary calcium. This benefit is increased further in pre-menopausal women.
How’s that for additional reason to drink milk and consume more dairy products?
According to lead author Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot from INSERM U557 (University of Paris):
“Our data support the hypothesis that dairy products, through calcium content or a correlated component, might have a negative association with the risk of breast cancer, particularly among pre-menopausal women.”
Dairy products rich in calcium include milk, cheese, yoghurt and other food stuff derived from milk.
Findings have been reported in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism.
Find more details from the full report.
Increasing calcium intake will also help reduce the chance of getting osteoporosis.
I wonder if they saw any difference between those consuming low or non-fat products compared to dairy with fat? That would be interesting.