I'll never forget my mother's health advice to us as children:
Drink your milk, eat your greens and get plenty of fresh air and
sunshine. When it comes to cancer prevention, it turns out mom
was right. Two new studies have uncovered exciting evidence of
exceptionally strong cancer-protective effects of calcium and
vitamin D from food or supplement sources. The first study was
published last week in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine
by Dr. Jennifer Lin and colleagues from Harvard. They report
that premenopausal women with high levels of vitamin D and
calcium in their diets have a lower risk of breast cancer
compared to women with lower intakes of these nutrients. The
second study, published in today's issue of the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition by Dr. Joan M Lappe and colleagues at
Creighton University, goes even further: Dietary supplementation
of these nutrients reduces the risk of multiple types of cancer.
Together, these studies provide robust evidence of the
beneficial effects that calcium