Excessive Milk Consumption Can Cause Prostrate Cancer


London, July 26 (IANS) Excessive milk consumption can increase the risk of prostate cancer, experts have found.

A Canadian research, published in The Prostate journal, found that men who drank four 200 ml glasses of milk had double the risk of the disease, reports dailymail.co.uk.

Milk contains cow hormones, including insulin-like Growth Factor 1 (IGF-1). These encourage growth and may help to feed prostate cancer and perhaps, to a lesser extent, ovarian cancer.

Researchers from University College London have suggested that a few thousand years ago people avoided milk because it led to gastric pain and upset stomachs. This is because Europeans lacked the gene to produce the enzyme lactase, which breaks down the milk sugar lactose.

However, Professor Walter Willett, chairman of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, says there's little evidence to justify such recommendations, claiming such measures are "likely to cause harm to some people".

Willett says that "many studies have shown a relation between high milk intake and risk of fatal or metastatic prostate cancer, explained by the fact that a high intake increases blood levels of the IGF-1 growth-promoting hormone".

  

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  • Felix F.,, India/Ksa

    Mon, Jul 26 2010

    Milk causes mucus, which is a food for cancer cells, it is a known fact.

    However its relation to Prostrate cancer should be taken seriously by milk consumers who use it thinking it as a helathy food
    Milk is also harmful for human consumption, that is why Milk ads specially for children are banned in India, according to my knowledge, gained after discussions with a doctor on this subject

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