On Feb 20, 2008, at 6:57 am, L wrote:

> I have to admit to being clueless about breast cancer. My family  
> cancer of preference is kidney cancer. I have always associated  
> estrogen with breast cancer and had no idea that NL has such a high  
> incidence of breast cancer. Do you think this is correlated to their  
> high dairy consumption?

I'd heard about a correlation between dairy consumption and  
osteoporosis but not breast cancer (I've heard it implicated but  
that's all).

A quick google through this up:
http://www.vegsource.com/articles/bernard_milk_prostate_cancer.htm

Is this the male equivalent?


> I know their burgeoning increase in height has been associated with  
> the growth hormones in dairy and always thought I was safe as I am  
> short by dutch standards plus don't really consume much dairy at all  
> in comparison to the SAD diet.

Hmm I wonder if this is the cause of my height?  I'm 6ft but based on  
my frame I was clearly intended to be shorter.  I had loads of milk as  
a child, my mum battled through milk allergy and managed somehow to  
feed me the best part of a litre a day for most of my childhood, and  
god knows how much if you count cheese too.  I always assumed that it  
was due to her thryoid starting to fail when she was pregnant with  
me.  Which, ironically, I suspect was indirectly due to a reaction to  
milk in the first place.