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...Medicine For families of artificial-heart patients, the experiment has been grueling. Drinking milk may reduce the risk of colon cancer...
...published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that calcium may help protect adults from cancer of the large intestine, a sometimes fatal disease that has afflicted some 138,000 Americans this year--including President Reagan, who had surgery to remove a cancerous growth from his colon last July...
...Colon cancer has been linked to high-fat diets; fatty foods increase the production of bile acids, which may irritate the lining of the colon and trigger abnormal cell growth. This could explain why the disease is found less frequently among vegetarians and in countries where people eat less fat than typical Americans...
...addition, it helps moderate blood pressure in people with hypertension, can significantly relieve depression and anxiety and appears to help maintain cognitive function in old age. Studies show that physical activity may also help prevent cancers of the breast and prostate, probably by influencing hormone levels, and of the colon, probably by keeping wastes moving along. Exercise seems to be so beneficial to cancer patients that oncologists have begun advising them to do their best to get moving. A study released last week showed that breast-cancer patients who walked three to five hours a week or did an equivalent...
Previous studies have shown that exercise reduces the risk of developing colon cancer. But research presented to the American Society of Clinical Oncology last week showed that exercise--a brisk hour's walk six times a week--can also reduce the risk of recurrence and death for those who already have the disease...