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Alcohol use has been increasingly associated with both premenopausal and postmenopausal breast cancer risk [ 32 33 ] , including a report from the California Teachers Study, showing that recent alcohol consumption increases risk for breast cancer [ 34 ] . We found that although women with breast cancer were less likely than controls to have begun drinking alcohol before age 21 years, they were much more likely than controls to consume two or more drinks per day on average as adults.
That is the fate that awaits those of us, we are told, who don't consume the escalating amount of calcium--now at a quart of milk a day or the equivalent--endorsed by public health officials.
He cites studies of rural Gambian women who don't drink milk, get about one-quarter of the calcium we're told to consume, yet rarely have osteoporotic fractures.
What about those of us who consume culture on the fly--who go to the movies only when dragged to the megaplex by the kids, who buy books at airport bookstores, who need to know whether the Broadway show whose high-priced tickets our parents are trying to pawn off on us is a gaudy spectacle from hell or Great Art?
Nobody disputes that Hale frequently visited Dozhier or that the two discussed Whitewater--the investigation did, after all, consume Hale's life.