India Breast Cancer Study With 359,619 Subjects

Biblical Israel might have been the land flowing with
milk and honey, but modern-day India is that nation
in which cows are worshiped and held sacred. Milk
drinking has been considered a healthy part of
India's Ayurvedic history (the Vedas were written
in Sanskrit 5,000 - 10,000 years ago), but a new
national study shatters that cultural myth shared
by more than one billion people.

The June issue of the Asian/Pacific Journal of
Cancer Prevention (2009 Jun;10(2):241-6) contains
a female breast cancer study performed in Kerala,
South India.

Researchers undertook a Herculinean task...
Scratch that.
Researchers undertook a Shivalinian task,
succeeding in interviewing 90 percent of the
1990 population of Kerala (359,619 people).
Researchers then followed through nineteen
years later by comparing subsequent breast
cancers to food questionnaires.

Epidemiologist's major finding:

"Milk drinking and consumption of chicken meat
were found to increase breast cancer risk."

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com