Calcium May Cut Cancer Risk

Source from: http://www.webmd.com/colorectal-cancer/news/20090223/calcium-may-cut-cancer-risk
(WebMD)

Calcium is already well known to help our bone growth but what affects does it have on cancer? This study was to see whether or not higher consumption of calcium can reduce risks of digestive cancers. This study has found that calcium might be able to help reduce the risks of cancer. There are signs that the older men and women who received most of their calcium sources from both food and supplements consumption, had a sixteen percent lower risk of getting cancer in the digestive system than the people who didn’t consume as much calcium. ““Our study suggests that calcium intake is associated with a lower risk of total cancer and cancers of the digestive system, especially colorectal cancer,” write researcher Yikyung Park, ScD, of the National Cancer Institute and colleagues in the Archives of Internal Medicine.””