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The problem is this: In general, world dietary patterns show that countries where people consume large amounts of calcium are also countries where people eat extravagant amounts of animal protein, places such as the United States and northern Europe.
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.
A recent report of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) concluded that while most Americans face a very low risk from methylmercury, children of women who consume large amounts of fish during pregnancy face a much higher risk.
Perhaps, because it probably serves most students as the single source for such matters, it should also include those addenda which, in Webster's 9th, consume 188 pages, e.g. a list of abbreviations, a gazetteer, etc.
These Chinese consume less than half the calcium we're told is necessary, virtually all of it from plant sources, in particular leafy green vegetables.