Breast cancer is the most common cancer-related death among women in most of the Western world and the leading cause of death for women under 50 says the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).
A team of researchers at Brigham Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical school found that milk consumption affected the level of hormones that may influence the development of some cancers.
Dr. Michelle Holmes who led the study said that women who drank the most milk had higher levels of insulin like growth factor 1, also known as IGF-1, a hormone that researchers at Stanford University and the National Institutes of Health found, stimulates cancer cell growth.
Studies published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association and the British Medical Journal found that consuming three additional servings of non-fat or 1- percent milk for 12 weeks was associated with a 10 percent increase in IGF-1 levels.
The American Dietetic Association also reports that breast cancer is most prevalent in countries where women consume high-fat, animal-based diets.
In Asia, where milk consumption is extremely rare, breast cancer is almost non-existent.
Dr. T. Colin Campbell an international renowned nutrition expert says that in China, a basically nonmilk-drinking country, cancer deaths among women aged 35 to 64 averaged less than 9 out of 100,000. In America the average is 44 out of 100,000.
"About one-third of the 500,000 cancer deaths that occur in the United States each year is due to dietary factors," says the American Cancer Society."Although the committee recognizes that no diet can guarantee full protection against any disease, we believe that our recommendations offer the best nutrition information currently available to help Americans reduce their risk of cancer."
The Society's top two recommendations are: "1. Choose most of the foods you eat from plant sources," and "2. Limit your intake of high-fat foods, particularly from animal sources."
IGF-1, occurs naturally in humans, cows and in all milk.
PETA says the hormone has been found to be increasingly abundant in milk from cows treated with synthetic bovine growth hormone(rBGH).
IGF-1 is not destroyed by pasteurization says the American Food and Drug Administration. Pasteurization actually increases the concentration of the hormone in rBGH milk.
For More Information go to:
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine http://www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_D...
The American Cancer Society
http://www2.cancer.org/docroot/home/inde...
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
http://milksucks.com
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