H.G. Wells once said, "Advertising is legalized lying."
With that in mind, I have an offer to make to America's
dairy industry. I'll make a deal with all dairymen. If
they will stop telling lies about milk, I will cease
telling the truth about how milk consumption results
in disease.

The bigger the lie, the more people are apt to accept
that lie, and the latest diary strategy is to have consumers
believe that if one drinks milk, he or she will lose weight.

So, in the interest of self improvement you might consider:

Chopping off your toes to run faster.
Injecting heroin in order to gain clarity.
Eating pizza and ice cream for weight loss.
Smoking cigarettes for greater lung capacity.
Eating mercury-laden fish each day to live longer.

Whether you believe in God or mother nature or evolution, you
must accept the truth about breastfeeding. Baby humans, calves,
puppies, lambs, and piglets all must gain enormous
weight after birth. They do so by eating. The perfect
food for baby mammals is the formula given to them
from the milk glands of their own mothers. That formula
which is specific to each species, is designed to deliver
an abundance of calories, fat, and growth hormones.
Drinking milk is about gaining weight, not losing weight.

The most powerful growth hormone in the human body is
identical to the most powerful growth hormone in a cow's body.
That hormone (insulin-like growth factor, or IGF-1) instructs
every cell in the human body to grow. Would growth hormones
instruct your own tissues and organs to shed pounds?

Throughout history, obesity and wealth have been directly
proportional. Aristocracy has always benefited from the
creme de la creme of man's food supply, and overeating of
rich foods has been reserved for the rulers of both
primitive and civilized societies.

Today, starvation and malnutrition are directly proportional
to poverty in most world nations. America is the exception.
In the United States, being poor often means being
overweight.

Poor children in America's inner cities are often roly-poly
fat children. Drive by any schoolyard in America's inner
cities and overweight kids are the norm, not the exception.

Children, lacking in proper nutrition at home, are now the
beneficiaries of school breakfast and lunch programs.

What food group is the most subsidized in America? Milk and
dairy products. Milk is mandatory for school lunch programs.

Children are becoming overweight at an early age. By eating
growth hormones in combination with animal fat, the body has
a way of listening to the signals of those chemical
messengers: GROW!

Many children of color live below the poverty level. In its
wisdom, the United States Department of Agriculture provides
free food and nutritional programs for these kids. In its
lack of wisdom, USDA has chosen milk and dairy products to
be the major components of these kids' diets. These children
now receive free breakfasts of cereal with milk, free
lunches of chocolate milk with macaroni and cheese or pizza.
A free snack before they go home is more chocolate milk.

Ten pounds of milk are required to make one pound of cheese.
In 1970, the average American ate ten pounds of cheese.
Today, the average American eats thirty pounds of cheese.
Concentrated growth hormones in the presence of fat and
cholesterol do just what they were designed to accomplish.
Milk and dairy products represent 40% of the average
American's diet, 666 pounds per year per person.

Are Your Friends Fat Cows?

The average American women has gone from a size 8 to
a size 14 in just 20 years. What other change has
occurred in less than two decades?

During the 1980s, the average American woman was eating 10
pounds of cheese per year. Today, she consumes an average 31
pounds per year. It takes 10 pounds of milk to produce one
pound of cheese, so 310 pounds of saturated, fat-rich, high
calorie milk with growth hormones fuel America's obesity
epidemic.

Like the baby calf drinking her mother's milk, the average
American female body, more and more, is resembling that of a
bovine.

Charles Attwood, MD, wrote:

"Dietary fat during childhood may be more life-threatening
than was originally suspected... Overweight children are
usually the victims of the dietary habits of the adult
members of the family...Reducing dietary fat to levels
necessary to the control of cholesterol cannot be achieved
if a child drinks whole milk or eats cheese."

In July of 2000, the Archive of Disabled Children (Volume
83) reported:

"From 1965 to 1996, a considerable shift in the adolescent
diet occurred...increases occurred in the consumption of
higher fat potatoes and mixed dishes (pizza, macaroni
cheese)... These trends, far greater than for US adults,
may compromise health of the future US population."

It is easy to gain weight by eating pizza, ice cream,
yogurt, and milk. It is also easy to slim down from
size 14 to size 8 again. The dietary answer: NOTMILK!

Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com