Harvard School of Public Health: Letter to the Dairy Industry

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Harvard School of Public Health:

Letter to the Dairy Industry.

 

A DEAR COLLEAGUE LETTER:

 

A recent letter from Walter Willett, MD, the principal

investigator of Harvard University Health Professionals

Follow-up Study (HPFS), delivered extremely bad news for

milk and dairy producers. Willett's letter, addressed as

" Dear Colleague, " went to researchers and subjects in the

largest ongoing medical study in the history of mankind.

 

WILLETT WROTE:

 

" Many of these findings have had a major impact on thinking

about the cause and prevention of disease. As you will

note, we have already learned much about the relation of

diet and lifestyle to risks of cardiovascular disease and

cancer. "

 

PROSTATE CANCER

 

Dr. Willett's letter contained a tremendous punch in the gut

for those who earn their living by producing and marketing

dairy products. Willet wrote:

 

" Consumption of more than two glasses of milk per day was

associated with almost twice the risk of advanced and

metastatic prostate cancer. "

 

WHAT'S IN STORE FOR NEXT YEAR?

 

Future studies will include analysis of dietary calcium,

magnesium, and potassium needs. The dairy industry claims

that there is a calcium crisis but makes no mention of there

being a magnesium crisis.

 

In order to absorb calcium, the body needs an equal amount of magnesium.

While there is a lot of calcium in milk, there is not a lot of magnesium.

Magnesium is the center atom of chlorophyll. That's why

cows have a lot of calcium in their body fluids.

 

They get it by eating " the green stuff, " not by drinking milk!

 

Preliminary findings in the Harvard study suggest that a

potassium intake is best achieved by increasing consumption

of fruits and vegetables and their juices.

 

Willett has found that men in the top 20% of potassium intake

had a 40% reduction in the risk of stroke

compared to men in the

bottom 20%.

 

 

 

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