Got skim milk? Gentlemen, you’d better not.
Two new studies suggest that men who drink low-fat or nonfat milk increase their risk of developing malignant prostate cancer.
This runs contrary to conventional thinking that higher amounts of calcium and vitamin D found in whole milk put men at higher risk for the disease.
In one ten-year study of over 82 thousand men, a University of Hawaii scientist and his research team discovered no evidence that calcium or vitamin D made the subjects more susceptible to contracting prostate cancer.
As a matter of fact, whole milk seemed to decrease the risk while the consumption of low-fat or nonfat milk boosted the chances of men developing localized tumors or non-aggressive tumors in the prostate.
Meanwhile, a similar study by the National Cancer Institute at National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland of nearly 300 thousand men over a six-year period appeared to corroborate the conclusion that skim milk was tied to prostate cancer.
Both studies are published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.
