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Article: A misplaced mania for milk: "increasing numbers of medical studies indict dairy products as contributors not only to obesity, heart disease, and diabetes, but prostate cancer, allergies, and possibly breast cancer. In children, dairy products can cause chronic constipation, ear infections, colic, asthma, and skin disorders.".(Medicine & Health)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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FOR MANY AMERICANS, cow's milk constitutes an icon of whole-someness. Indeed, for generation after generation, the U.S.'s $75,000,000,000-per-year dairy industry--which dates back to a few cows shipped to Jamestown, Va., in 1611--has succeeded in promoting its products, often with considerable government help.
In 1916, in an era when "milkmen" in horse-drawn wagons delivered bottles door-to-door, the first daily food guidelines from the Federal government included "milk and meat" as one of five groups. By the time the "Basic Four Food Groups" debuted in 1956, milk and milk products had been given a group of their own. As time passed, the dairy industry garnered ...