Osteoporosis and Milk
By Lindsay Pollard-Post
Staff Writer
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Norfolk, VA

Doctors evaluating their patients’ osteoporosis risk based upon the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recent report would be wise to consider another factor that is gaining attention: cow milk may cause osteoporosis, not prevent it.
The February 5 Chicago Tribune article “Not milk?” reports that Walter Willett, chairman of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, “… found that women with the highest calcium consumption from dairy products actually had substantially more fractures than women who drank less milk.”
The same article reports that T. Colin Campbell, professor emeritus of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University who spent decades studying the effects of a plant-based diet in China, observed, “The higher the consumption of dairy, animal protein and calcium, the higher the fracture rate — an indisputable observation in my view.”
Weight-bearing exercise and vitamin D are proven bone builders. Kids can get plenty of both by simply playing outside in the sunshine.

 

 


 

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