More questions about calcium answered
Are dairy products the problem or is it the calcium they contain?
Because milk and dairy foods supply so much of the calcium in the typical diet, it’s hard to tease them apart when using data from epidemiological studies. With ovarian cancer, there’s reason to believe that dairy products are the culprit because of evidence pointing to intake of lactose, the sugar in dairy foods, as a risk factor. With prostate and colon cancer, the evidence points to calcium itself.
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