Calcium rich diet could reduce bowel cancer risk, study finds
Consuming an extra 300 mg of calcium a day, roughly the amount in a large glass of milk, could be linked to a decreased risk of bowel cancer, a large study has found.1 Researchers from Oxford Population Health analysed dietary data from more than 542 000 women over an average of 16 years to examine the link between 97 dietary products and nutrients and the risk of bowel cancer. Their results, published in Nature Communications , suggest that products rich in calcium, such as milk and yoghurt, were associated with a 17% lower risk of a bowel cancer diagnosis (relative risk per 300 mg/day 0.83 (confidence interval 0.77 to 0.89; P<0.001)). The prospective study, funded by Cancer Research UK, found that calcium had a …