LONDON (Reuters) - Researchers in Germany say they see a lack of germs in beef and dairy products that can cause a number of risks to human health.
Professors Harald Tsur Hausen, a Nobel laureate of medicine, said the bacteria, known as the legacies of beef and milk, can infect humans with chronic infections, possibly leading to large bowel cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer.
The Heidelberg Cancer Research Center said that the internationally known prevalence model for cancers of the intestine and breast indicates that it is associated with consumption of milk and European beef products.
Several people develop colorectal cancer in India, where more people eat beef almost, than in areas where beef consumption is increasing, such as North America, Argentina, Europe and Australia.
The Center said that it is still difficult to find out the extent to which the legacy of beef cattle in tumors, but it is clear that there are many other factors, where researchers are likely to have such a relationship exists, for example, in substances produced by bacteria.
Professor Tsur Hausen, former chairman of the German Center for Cancer Research, confirmed that knowing more about the legacies of beef and milk, certain elements of DNA, would open up opportunities for prevention of these malignancies.
Tsur Hausen, a Nobel laureate in medicine, stressed that breast milk protects infants from the effect of these molecules because they contain certain natural sugars.
"I advise mothers to breastfeed their babies for as long as possible, and it is best to continue breastfeeding for 12 months," he said, explaining that the children's immune system becomes stable from this age, making it better to protect the child against many infections, And his daughter.
He also advised the German professor to avoid feeding infants with cow's milk products at an early age, according to a statement by the German Center for Cancer Research in Heidelberg.
Lactation can also protect mothers from the effects of DNA components, because breast tissue underlies breastfeeding with sugar compounds, the researchers estimate.