Latticini, calcio e cancro del colon
Un nuovo Swedish study looked for a correlation between colon cancer and intake of calcium and dairy products.
Method: prospective observational study of 45,306 men (age 45-79 years) healthy subjects, followed for 7 years after detection of eating habits.
Results: During 7 years, the risk of being one of the 449 cases who developed colon cancer was lower for those taking higher amounts of both calcium and dairy-see chart-was not found a clear link with no particular site of the colon and rectum, and the association was significant only for milk.
Bibliography: Larsson SC. et al. Calcium and dairy food intakes are inversely Associated with colorectal cancer risk in the Cohort of Swedish Men. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006 Mar; 83 (3) :667-73.
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