No animal drinks milk after it is weaned. The ways of nature are awesome and mysterious.
There are like TONS of women right now conscientiously drinking their three (or more) large glasses of milk a day in order to avoid osteoporosis. Wouldn�t it be simply amazing if milk was actually contributing to the problem? But for every "do this" expert medical opinion there is a "don�t do that" opinion. Each sounds equally compelling. They probably both can�t be correct. I think most of the public out there is getting quite tired of, and inured to, this seesaw battle and the accompanying sensationalism, over-statements, and sometimes outright scare tactics. Many people now (perhaps most), instead of changing their diets at the first news that "X will give you cancer", now joke about it as just another sensationalistic health scare that will doubtless be proven false tomorrow.
In the real world, for those people who are interested in good health but don�t have the time to get their PhD�s to keep up on the latest medical tactics, we need to have all this simplified just a bit. We�re looking to feel better and live longer, not make a friggin� profession out of it or to nurture our inner hypochondria. If you�re telling us to go low in fat, low in salt, and high on the vegetables, we can understand that. If you�re telling us to eat a well-rounded variety of different foods, we can understand that. If you�re telling us even to, whatever we eat, to eat less, we can understand that as well. But if you�re telling us to take out calcium in t 3 to 1 ratio with magnesium, our eyes are just going to glaze over. Sorry, but that�s the way it is.
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