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The countries in the world that drink the most milk have the most osteoporosis.- I heard it at a talk a by T Colin Campbell in late 90s at Taste of Health in Seattle. It for me was a more nails in the coffin for milk. Remember Milk is a highly processed food, it is pasteurized, homogenized, and nutrients are then added to it like vitamin A and D. Vitamin D is just thrown in, as I have heard an not really measured. It has a shelf life when it is processed longer than a health live milk would have. Most milk should be eaten that day, and mostly by baby animals.
"The association between the intake of animal protein and fracture rates appears to be as strong as the association between cigarette smoking and lung cancer."
Dr. T. Colin Campbell
After looking at 34 published studies in 16 countries, researchers at Yale University found that countries with the highest rates of osteoporosis--including the United States, Sweden, and Finland--are those in which people consume the most meat, milk, and other animal foods. This study also showed that African Americans, who consume, on average, more than 1,000 mg of calcium per day, are nine times more likely to experience hip fractures than are South African blacks, whose daily calcium intake is only 196 mg. Says McDougall, "[O]n a nation-by-nation basis, people who consume the most calcium have the weakest bones and the highest rates of osteoporosis. ... Only in those places where calcium and protein are eaten in relatively high quantities does a deficiency of bone calcium exist, due to an excess of animal protein." Dr. John McDougall