Right on the heels of Dr Simoncini's video about bicarbonate of soda and cancer, we have this report about calcium and cancer. No brownie points for spotting the link: both substances alkaline of course.
This is no small study. It is based on a study of 492,000 people. It was just released a few days ago, and it comes from the Archives of Internal Medicine. It suggests that the more calcium you have, especially as you age, the less likely you are to develop some forms of cancer.
The seven year study of almost half a million people showed that around 10% - 50,000 - contracted cancer, mostly prostate, breast, lung and colorectal. That's the bad news.
The good news is that the more calcium people consumed, the less chance they had of being in the 50,000.
Regular calcium food eaters had the lowest risk of all of colorectal cancer,
(males took 1530mg a day, females 1,881mg a day)
Men who got regular calcium (mainly from food) were around 16% safer than men who had low calcium uptake.
Women, in the same scenario, were 28% safer.
There have been some studies actually linking calcium intake in men with cancer, but no such risk was found in this study. As usual, just to be 'safe', researchers said more studies are needed to confirm the findings.
Here's the study
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