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Official position of German Society for Nutrition (DGE = Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung) 1st November 2001. Research, Hospital and Practice 11/2001 Key Words: milk, milk components, milk fat, CLA, Lactose, Galactose, sour milk bacteria, Calcium, vitamin D, Cancer forms… The comparison of various foods consumption in different countries with the frequency of certain cancer forms shows in some studies the visible association between high milk fat consumption and increased rate of cancer (breast, rectal, prostate, pancreas, lungs, uterine tubes (12, 22) etc). The connection with lethal outcome rate is shown just for breast and prostate cancer. The migration studies, e.g. of the Japanese who moved to USA (13), showed that the change to the “western style” diet, which is rich in meats, animal fats and milk products, caused more frequent breast, pancreas and prostate cancer. However the limited quality of the data as well as uncontrolled co-founding of such correlations requires careful evaluation of the food types. The results of case-control and cohort-studies are contradictory. Mostly the human studies that show positive correlation between milk and milk products consumption and cancer forms are based on almost same number of studies as the one that shows no correlation or even negative correlation between milk and cancer. World Cancer Research Fund Report 1997 (24) indicates adipositas and the consumption of cholesterol and animal fats as the possible risk factors for colorectal, breast, uterine tubes, prostate, pancreas and lung cancer. However the correlation of consumption of milk and milk products is noticeable only for prostate and kidney cancer. Other overview articles (10) come to similar conclusions. |
