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'Dairy food as deadly as tobacco'
Press Association
Wednesday March 17, 2004 7:08 AM
People should avoid milk and cheese as much as tobacco, a scientist has said.
Professor Jane Plant says there is strong evidence that dairy products promote breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.
Speaking at a lecture on diet and cancer, she said: "My advice is don't have any dairy products in any form whatsoever. Just cut them out completely."
Professor Plant's best selling book on links between dairy products and breast cancer, Your Life In Your Hands, was published last year. Her new book, Prostate Cancer - Understand, Prevent and Overcome - comes out in May.
Professor Plant made the dairy connection after being given two months to live with advanced breast cancer which had spread to her lymph glands. She wondered why it was that in rural China, where hardly any dairy products are consumed, rates of breast cancer were so low.
After giving up all dairy foods herself she noticed a remarkable change. Within five weeks the huge tumour in her neck began to itch, then soften, and finally shrivel away.
More than 10 years later at the age of 60 she is clear of the disease - although she has had breast cancer five times.
Her investigations highlighted the role that milk chemicals such as insulin-like growth factor one (IGF-1) played in cancer. IGF-1 is naturally present in cow's milk but levels are increasing as a result of selective breeding by the dairy industry.
There was a clear association between levels of IGF-1 in a man's blood and his PSA level. PSA, or prostate specific antigen, is a protein marker which increases in cases of prostate cancer.
Excess calcium in milk and dairy products also depressed the activity of vitamin D, which protects against breast and prostate cancer, said Professor Plant.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,1271,-3870130,00.html
'Dairy food as deadly as tobacco'
Press Association
Wednesday March 17, 2004 7:08 AM
People should avoid milk and cheese as much as tobacco, a scientist has said.
Professor Jane Plant says there is strong evidence that dairy products promote breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men.
Speaking at a lecture on diet and cancer, she said: "My advice is don't have any dairy products in any form whatsoever. Just cut them out completely."
Professor Plant's best selling book on links between dairy products and breast cancer, Your Life In Your Hands, was published last year. Her new book, Prostate Cancer - Understand, Prevent and Overcome - comes out in May.
Professor Plant made the dairy connection after being given two months to live with advanced breast cancer which had spread to her lymph glands. She wondered why it was that in rural China, where hardly any dairy products are consumed, rates of breast cancer were so low.
After giving up all dairy foods herself she noticed a remarkable change. Within five weeks the huge tumour in her neck began to itch, then soften, and finally shrivel away.
More than 10 years later at the age of 60 she is clear of the disease - although she has had breast cancer five times.
Her investigations highlighted the role that milk chemicals such as insulin-like growth factor one (IGF-1) played in cancer. IGF-1 is naturally present in cow's milk but levels are increasing as a result of selective breeding by the dairy industry.
There was a clear association between levels of IGF-1 in a man's blood and his PSA level. PSA, or prostate specific antigen, is a protein marker which increases in cases of prostate cancer.
Excess calcium in milk and dairy products also depressed the activity of vitamin D, which protects against breast and prostate cancer, said Professor Plant.
© Copyright Press Association Ltd 2004, All Rights Reserved.