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THE MILK LETTER : A MESSAGE TO MY PATIENTS

"MILK" Just the word itself sounds comforting! "How about anice cup of hot milk?" The last time you heard that questionit was from someone who cared for you--and you appreciatedtheir effort.The entire matter of food and especially that of milk issurrounded with emotional and cultural importance. Milk wasour very first food. If we were fortunate it was ourmother's milk. A loving link, given and taken. It was theonly path to survival. If not mother's milk it was cow'smilk or soy milk "formula"--rarely it was goat, camel orwater buffalo milk.Now, we are a nation of milk drinkers. Nearly all of us.Infants, the young, adolescents, adults and even the aged.We drink dozens or even several hundred gallons a year andadd to that many pounds of "dairy products" such as cheese,butter, and yogurt.Can there be anything wrong with this? We see reassuringimages of healthy, beautiful people on our televisionscreens and hear messages that assure us that, "Milk is goodfor your body." Our dieticians insist that: "You've got tohave milk, or where will you get your calcium?" Schoollunches always include milk and nearly every hospital mealwill have milk added. And if that isn't enough, ournutritionists told us for years that dairy products make upan "essential food group." Industry spokesmen made sure thatcolourful charts proclaiming the necessity of milk and otheressential nutrients were made available at no cost forschools. Cow's milk became "normal."You may be surprised to learn that most of the human beingsthat live on planet Earth today do not drink or use cow'smilk. Further, most of them can't drink milk because itmakes them ill.There are students of human nutrition who are not supportiveof milk use for adults.