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Article: Cereal, Calcium Help Ward Off Colon Cancer

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August 27, 1992
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If you're worried about colon cancer, your best dietary antidote may be a bowl of cereal with lots of low-fat milk. That's what new studies are finding.

Swedish researchers compared the diets of colon-cancer surgery patients with those of healthy people over a 15-year period. Two factors stood out as protective: cereal and calcium, which is found in large quantities in dairy products. The Swedes least apt to get colon cancer, as well as rectal cancer, ate more high-fiber cereal and high-calcium foods.

How much is needed? Researcher Harold Newmark of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York says the protective calcium dose against colon cancer is probably 1,500 to 1,800 ...

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