Evidence continues to mount showing that eating red meat and drinking alcohol increase the risk of colorectal cancer.
– has established the association. It showed that women who eat an amount of red meat the size of a deck of cards daily had an 8% increased risk of colorectal cancer. Two daily alcoholic drinks were linked to a 15% increased risk.
Women who consumed at least 300 milligrams of calcium daily had a 17% reduced risk of colon or rectal cancers over 16 years. That amount of calcium is the equivalent to a large glass of, and the protective benefits were also observed among women who got their calcium from non-dairy sources such as leafy green vegetables.
“This is the most comprehensive single study ever conducted into the relationship between diet and bowel cancer, and it highlights the potential protective role of calcium in the development of this disease,” said Keren Papier, PhD, a nutritional epidemiologist at the University of Oxford and lead researcher of the study, in aFor the study, researchers analyzed dietary survey data from more than 500,000 women in England and Scotland and then linked those women to databases that document cases...
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