Dairy and cancer?

[Pat Robinson]

This post is related to this video: "MILK - THE DEADLY POISON --- FRIGHTENING.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMHvMAUDHj4&feature=related

We were directed to the links below the video in the description. Click the arrows button next to the description it will pull down the list of research.

So far, I haven't found any research which purports to make or support the claims regarding dairy "causes" cancer, diabetes, tumor growth and disease. The individual studies reference specific components in milk which when isolated from milk are pointed out as the relevant variables. I've seen no studies referencing raw milk, specifically.

The first article, I examined the actual research linked:

Tseng M, Breslow RA, Graubard BI, Ziegler RG. Dairy, calcium, and vitamin D intakes and prostate cancer risk in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Epidemiologic Follow-up Study cohort. Am J Clin Nutr. 2005 May;81(5):1147-54.
CONCLUSIONS: Dairy consumption may increase prostate cancer risk through a calcium-related pathway.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15883441

Huncharek M, Muscat J, Kupelnick B. Colorectal cancer risk and dietary intake of calcium, vitamin D, and dairy products: a meta-analysis of 26,335 cases from 60 observational studies. Nutr Cancer.
2009;61(1):47-69.
Conclusions: Milk intake was unrelated to rectal cancer risk. Higher consumption of milk/dairy products reduces the risk of colon cancer, and high calcium intake reduces the risk of CRC.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19116875

Luopajärvi K, Savilahti E, Virtanen SM, Ilonen J, Knip M, Akerblom HK, Vaarala O. Enhanced levels of cow's milk antibodies in infancy in children who develop type 1 diabetes later in childhood. Pediatr
Diabetes. 2008 Oct;9(5):434-41.
CONCLUSION: An enhanced humoral immune response to various CM proteins in infancy is seen in a subgroup of those children who later progress to T1D. Accordingly, a dysregulated immune response to oral antigens is an early event in the pathogenesis of T1D.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18503496

Acne, dairy and cancer, The 5α-P link, F William (Bill) Danby.

The evidence assembled here suggests that dairy-sourced hormones, not being subject to any innate feedback inhibition, may be the source of the androgenic and mitogenic progestins that drive acne, prostate and breast cancer. Although mechanisms postulated here remain to be
accurately defined, the likely link involves Insulin-like Growth Factor-1 as a general stimulant,
synergized by the steroid hormones present in milk.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2715202/?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_SingleItemSupl.Pubmed_DiscoveryDbLinks&ordinalpos=1&tool=pubmed

{That is Growth Factor-1 in treated cows, per my understanding. ] http://vvv.com/healthnews/milk.html

Kurahashi N. Dairy product, saturated fatty acid, and calcium intake and prostate cancer in a prospective cohort of Japanese men.
In conclusion, our results suggest that the intake of dairy products may be associated with an increased risk of prostate cancer. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18398033?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&ordinalpos=2

I looked at many of the other referenced links. I disregarded YouTube as a scientific resource, just as I’d suggest disregarding Facebook as a scientific resource. :-)

But, I found nothing more than data which failed to demonstrate significant associations between dairy and cancer, diabetes, tumor growth or major disease. But, again, none of these studies seemed to include raw milk, unaltered by commercial processing of milk.



Pat