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Rome, March 5 2010. (Reuters) - Too much milk and dairy products can be risky, especially for men. A daily consumption of over 470 grams per day doubles the risk of prostate cancer. A warn is a Canadian study conducted by Parviz Ghadirian, a professor in the Department of Nutrition, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal - to be published in the journal 'Wiley' - which explored the link between food and cancer 200 prostate. Also searching out the protection products: nuts. takes 90 grams per month to 'cut' the risk by 50%. Milk and dairy products, however, are the only food for which you have found a direct link in the development of this tumor male . There are two assumptions made by researchers to explain this relationship. In the first, attention is focused on animal fat in milk that could disable genes that suppress cancer cells. The second focuses on football, in excess, can destroy a metabolite of vitamin D, known for its ability to inhibit tumor cell growth. None of these assumptions, however, was confirmed by data in the study. And there is still another possibility: "An as yet unknown mechanism could arise from the interaction of milk with other food products, increasing the risk of cancer," says Ghadirian who conducted research on about 200 patients with prostate cancer and a group of healthy people.