Article: Dr. Spock Joins Critics of Cow's Milk

BALTIMORE Cookies and milk may never be the same.

Child care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock, who has long advocated drinking cow's milk, is joining several other doctors in questioning its nutritional value and warning of the possible harm it can cause some children.

"This does not mean that every child that's been on cow's milk is doomed," Spock said Tuesday. But "breast feeding is the best milk feeding for babies."

Spock, 89, appeared at a press conference in Boston with Dr. Frank A. Oski, director of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommended earlier this ...

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