CALCIUM, a necessary part of the diet to build strong bones and teeth, may increase prostate cancer risk in men who are of small build, a recent study found.
The study also found that even at relatively low levels and from non-dairy foods such as soya, grains and green vegetables, calcium significantly increases the risk among Chinese men.
The data for the research, published this month in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, was taken from the Singapore Chinese Health Study of more than 63,000 ethnic male Chinese living here and aged between 45 and 74.
