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Article: What's Milk Got? (Health Risks and Environmental Issues).
- Article from:
- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
- Author:
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The GOT MILK? campaign featuring high profile celebrities sporting milk mustaches has been a very effective advertising tool in putting milk in front of the American consumer to reverse a decline in milk sales. The medical establishment endorses milk as a way to build strong bodies in children and prevent osteoporosis in later years, due to the high calcium content. Milk is said to be the "perfect food." For sure, there is much controversy about the benefits of dairy products. With great admiration for the enduring research done by Weston Price, DDS, who believed strongly in the nutritive value of milk and butter fat, (1) this treatise seeks to take an updated look at ...