sugar and milk

I keep hearing that milk and sugar promote the growth of a cancer. Is this an old wives tale without merit, or are there studies supporting the theory??

Doing without them would make me lose more weight.

Thanks, 

Alan 

On 2/2/2008 lechefgerard wrote:

I keep hearing that milk and sugar promote the growth of a cancer. Is this an old wives tale without merit, or are there studies supporting the theory??

Doing without them would make me lose more weight.

Thanks, 

Alan 

Hi Alan,

Little clinical evidence exists that milk actually increases cancer risk:
-There is some evidence skim milk - but not whole milk - may increase prostate cancer risk.
-There is no consistent evidence relating milk to breast- or esophageal cancer risk.
-There is some evidence that milk decreases colorectal and bladder cancer risk.

-I'm not sure about other types of cancer.
-Up till now, I never read a clinical study which found milk to increase total cancer risk.

I'm not sure about the sugar thing. Here's the finding by the WCRF (october 2007): http://www.dietandcancerreport.org

If you think rat studies are a reliable source of information, professor Campbell may have a point.

 If you think hundreds of thousands of humans followed-up for many years are a more reliable source of information, the WCRF has a point.

Choose:

1) rats administrated casein, or

2) humans drinking actual milk.

On 2/2/2008 Shemay wrote:

Hello Alan I hope you find the information of these sites helpful. There are much better ways to keep your weight at a healthy level than by consuming sugar or dairy. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ISW/is_2002_Nov/ai_9 http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/nutrition/sugar.htm

 

On 2/2/2008 lechefgerard wrote:

I keep hearing that milk and sugar promote the growth of a cancer. Is this an old wives tale without merit, or are there studies supporting the theory??

Doing without them would make me lose more weight.

Thanks, 

Alan 

 

 Thanks for your review--Clearly dairy is NOT something to worry about, did you also do a review of sugar vs risk??

Thanks, 

On 2/2/2008 isdatzo wrote:

Personally, I try to stick to facts instead of reading interesting sites trying to put things out of perspective.

And personally, I believe one should always do a systematic review of the literature before drawing conclusions, instead of searching for studies which might fit your point in a discussion.

From that perspective, these are systematic reviews of prospective studies relating milk to cardiovascular disease and cancer:

1) A systematic review of milk in relation to cardiovascular disease:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15116074?ordinalpos=5&

2) A systematic review of milk in relation to prostate cancer:
http://canceranddiet.nl/prostate_cancer/prospective_dairy_eg

3) A systematic review of milk in relation to breast cancer:
http://canceranddiet.nl/breast_cancer/prospective_dairy_eggs

4) A systematic review of milk in relation to colorectal cancer:
http://canceranddiet.nl/colorectal_cancer/prospective_dairy_

5) A systematic review of milk in relation to ovarian cancer:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16492930?ordinalpos=1&

6) A systematic review of milk in relation to esophageal cancer:
http://canceranddiet.nl/esophageal_cancer/prospective_and_ca