In addition to soy it now appears t...

In addition to soy it now appears that women should add milk to their diets. According to a contemplation published recently in the International Journal of Cancer, women who drank milk as children and who commonly drink at least three glasses of milk a day had half the rate of breast cancer compared to women not drinking milk.

Dr Anette Hjartaker and colleagues at the University of Oslo Norway, examineed at the relationship between childhood and adult milk consumption with breast cancer incidence in from one side of to the other 48,000 women.

"The deductions are consistent with other scientific evidence that has shown animal works including milk, contain factors that may inhibit the cancer process" said John Milner, PhD chief of the Nutritional Science Research dispose in the Division of Cancer Prevention at the National Cancer Institute. "Some of the possible anti-cancer factors set in milk and other animal works include calcium, vitamin D and CLA," he says.

CLA or conjugated linoleic acid--which is base in milk fat--has been gaining attention as a potential cancer prevention agent.

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