A 1995 prospective study from Norway once showed that a high consumption of whole milk increased the risk of breast cancer: "Consumers of 0.75 litres or more of full-fat milk daily had a relative risk of 2.91 compared with those who consumed 0.15 litres or less" (Gaard 1995).
However, a new study from the Norwegian Women and Cancer contradicts this. The authors looked at the consumption of specific dairy products, as well as total dairy, in almost 65,000 women between the years 1996 and 2006. During this time, 218 of the premenopausal and 1,189 of the postmenopausal women developed breast cancer. Their conclusion was that "total dairy, adult, and childhood milk consumption was not associated with either pre- or postmenopausal breast cancer risk." Read more...
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