{"id":26309,"date":"2020-08-24T20:18:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T20:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=321299"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:20","slug":"women-who-consume-cows-milk-increase-their-risk-of-breast-cancer-by-up-to-80-study-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/women-who-consume-cows-milk-increase-their-risk-of-breast-cancer-by-up-to-80-study-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Who Consume Cows\u2019 Milk Increase Their Risk Of Breast Cancer By Up To 80%, Study Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

A study<\/a> published in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that women who consume cows\u2019 milk may increase their risk of breast cancer by up to 80%.<\/span>The study was commissioned by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the World Cancer Research Fund.<\/span>The observational study examined<\/a> 52,795 North American women over nearly 8 years to see if those who consumed cows\u2019 milk or soy milk were more at risk for breast cancer.<\/span><\/span>Pixabay<\/span>The participants filled out a detailed food questionnaire before beginning and many were taken from \u201cAdventist Health Study-2, as many Adventists follow a vegetarian diet and tend to consume significant amounts of soy in comparison to the Standard American Diet,\u201d stated<\/a> Center for Nutrition Studies.<\/span>At the end of the 7.9 years, 1057 participants had developed breast cancer.<\/span>The women who only consumed soy milk or no milk at all didn\u2019t show an increase in individual risk. However, women who drank one eight ounce glass of milk a day increased their risk by 50%, and those who consumed two to three glasses increased their risk by a staggering 80%.<\/span><\/span>Pixabay<\/span>One of the authors of the study, Gary E. Fraser, MBChB, PhD, said<\/a> the study gives \u201cfairly strong evidence that either dairy milk or some other factor closely related to drinking dairy milk is a cause of breast cancer in women.\u201d<\/span>He went on to say, \u201cConsuming as little as 1\/4 to 1\/3 cup of dairy milk per day was associated with an increased risk of breast cancer of 30%. By drinking up to one cup per day, the associated risk went up to 50%, and for those drinking two to three cups per day, the risk increased further to 70% to 80%.\u201d<\/span><\/span>Pixabay<\/span>All women have an inherent 12% average risk of breast cancer and while drinking a glass of cow\u2019s milk doesn\u2019t guarantee a woman is 50% more likely to get cancer, it does increase her individual risk, according to the study.<\/span>Researchers have been conducting more studies on dairy products to see if their speculation that the reproductive hormones in the milk cause an increased risk for specific cancers.<\/span><\/span>Pixabay<\/span>Current U.S. Dietary Guidelines<\/a> recommends adults consume three glasses a day of fat-free milk, but the study found \u201cfull fat and reduced fat milks produced similar results.\u201d<\/span>\u201cDairy milk does have some positive nutritional qualities,\u201d Fraser said<\/a>, \u201cbut these need to be balanced against other possible, less helpful effects. This work suggests the urgent need for further research.\u201d<\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology found that women who consume cows\u2019 milk may increase their risk of breast cancer by up to 80%.The study was commissioned by the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, and the World Cancer Research Fund.The observational study examined 52,795 North American women over nearly 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44182,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26309\/revisions\/44182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}