JADA: Dairy Industry Self-Destructs in sponsored study

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THE DAIRY INDUSTRY SELF-DESTRUCTS

 

A new study just published in the current issue of the Journal of the

American Dietetic Association had intended to prove that drinking milk

prevents bone disease.

 

However, careful review of that study only proves that the dairy industry

will go to great lengths to commit scientific fraud and then continue to

market their calcium milk myth.

 

In addition to an extremely biased bone study, details of which are

revealed in this column, the dairy industry inadvertently published the most

self-incriminating scientific paper in their history. Dairy scientists have

admitted that the level of a very powerful hormone contained in milk,

insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I), increases in the human body after

milk consumption.

 

In the last two years, IGF-I has been identified as the key factor in the

growth and proliferation of various cancers including prostate cancer

(SCIENCE - January, 1998), breast cancer (THE LANCET - May, 1998), and lung

cancer (JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE - January, 1999).

However, scientists at the Food and Drug Administration have previously

(incorrectly) argued that this powerful growth hormone in milk did not

survive

digestion and cannot alter human blood chemistry. Now that the evidence is in,

the scientific community has proof of how wrong government regulators were

in approving the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone (rbGH).

Milk from cows treated with rbGH contains increased levels of IGF-I.

 

THE DAIRY SCIENTISTS

 

Robert Heaney, MD, is the senior author of the dairy industry-financed

study. He co-published his paper with seven other researchers, including

Suzanne Oparil, and Susan Barr. I first identified these three

doctor/scientists by writing about them in " MILK-The Deadly Poison. "

On page four of my book, I reveal that this trio is listed together on the

reverse of a milk mustache brochure as " dairy experts. " They have very

strong ties to dairy industry dollars. It is no coincidence that these three

individuals participated in a new study, critical to the dairy industry. In

order to continue to market their calcium milk myth, the dairy industry

planned, financed, and now is promoting this study. On Friday October 1,

1999, a press release announced:

 

" ADDING MILK TO DAILY DIETS SLOWS BONE BREAKDOWN IN OLDER ADULTS "

 

The dairy industry-financed study was published in the

Journal of the American Dietetic Association.

The American Dietetic Association receives financing from the dairy industry.

 

The " scientific study, " headed by Robert Heaney, MD, concluded that by

drinking three servings of milk each day, older adults could improve their

skeletal health.

 

After reading the press release, I contacted the editor of that journal and

was sent a FAX containing the actual publication.

 

THE STUDY

 

The twelve-week study included 204 men and women between

the ages of 55 and 85.

 

There were 72 males and 132 females. It was determined (during

pre-interviews) that the average participant consumed 1.5 portions of dairy

each day. The 204 subjects were divided into two smaller groups. The control

group participants were instructed to continue eating normally. The second

group was the experimental group. These subjects were instructed to drink

three 250 mL (8-ounce) servings of milk each day in addition to their

normal diets.

 

EXPERIMENTAL BIAS

 

There was an extraneous variable in the study that negated any possibility

of fairness. The results were actually pre-determined.

 

When women go through menopause, the most often physician-prescribed

treatment is hormonal replacement therapy. Hormone therapy successfully

prevents calcium depletion.

 

In a fair and unbiased study, none of the subjects would have been taking

hormones. The study was poorly designed by allowing experimental

subjects to include a therapy that would

negate the test results.

 

Thirty of the 65 women (46 percent) in the experimental milk-drinking group

were taking steroid hormones that prevent bone loss.

 

Only twenty-one of the 67 women (31 percent) in the control group were

taking steroid hormones that prevent bone loss.

 

Fifty percent more of the women in the milk-drinking group were taking

steroid hormones that were designed to prevent bone loss! By this factor

alone, one would naturally expect the experimental group to experience less

bone loss.

 

JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN DIETETIC ASSOCIATION

 

I spoke to the editor of the Journal of the American Dietetic Association,

Betsy Crist.

 

When I complained about how poorly reviewed this " peer-reviewed " article

seemed to be and revealed to her the critically flawed experimental bias

she invited me to write a letter to the editor. I invite you to do the

same.

 

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

212 West Jackson Boulevard

Chicago IL 60606

FAX: 312-899-4845

 

THE MISSING HORMONE LINK

 

On page 1231 of the journal article, tucked away in a paragraph titled

" Skeletal Effects, " these dairy scientists reveal the truth about the

powerful growth hormone contained in milk:

 

" Serum IGF-I level increased significantly in the milk group and the

difference between groups was highly significant. Serum IGF-I levels (blood

levels) increased significantly in the milk group . . . an increase of

about 10% above baseline--but was unchanged in the control group. "

 

WHY DID FDA FIND THE GENETICALLY ENGINEERED BOVINE GROWTH HORMONE SAFE?

 

The FDA approved the genetically engineered bovine growth hormone after

concluding that IGF-I was destroyed in the stomach. According to FDA, it is

not possible that milk consumption would result in an increase of IGF-I in

the human body.

 

The evidence provided by this study should forever change the thinking of

the scientific community.

 

The evidence provided by this study should forever change the milk-drinking

habits of all Americans.

 

IS IGF-I IN MILK A DANGER?

 

By continuing to drink milk, one delivers the most powerful growth hormone

in nature to his or her body (IGF-I). That hormone has been called the key

factor in the growth of breast, prostate, and lung cancer. At the very best,

or worst, this powerful growth hormone instructs all cells to grow.

This might be the reason that Americans are so overweight.

At the very worst, this hormone does not discriminate. When it finds

an existing cancer, usually controlled by our immune systems,

the message it delivers is: GROW!

 

A MIRACLE OF NATURE

 

There are four thousand mammals in the animal kingdom and many

millions of different hormones. Only one hormone is identical in

structure between two species. That hormone is IGF-I.

 

IGF-I is a protein hormone that survives digestion, and is an identical

match between human and cow. Eat their cheese, ice cream, yogurt,

or milk and you take powerful growth hormones into your body.

The increase in blood levels of IGF-I have been measured and

confirmed by the dairy industry to be ten percent!

 

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I rest my case.

 

Robert Cohen author of: MILK - The Deadly Poison

(201-871-5871)

Executive Director

Dairy Education Board

http://www.notmilk.com

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