"The first reason why I don’t consume dairy products,
and why I think other people should not, is the fat content.
The fat is saturated fat, and you may as well be eating beef tallow.
The fat in these dairy products encourages heart disease
and numerous other problems.
It’s a risk factor for some forms of cancer as well."

NEAL BARNARD, M.D.
President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine,
author, Turn Off The Fat Genes

"Animal fats, especially those in milk, butter, cheese and meat,
are highly saturated, and an excess intake of such foods
may be partly responsible for the development of atheroma,
which causes atherosclerosis."

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
Family Medical Guide

My medical experience affirms that many health problems -
from asthma to colitis - respond favorably
to the removal of dairy products from the diet."

MICHAEL A. KLAPER M.D.
American author and international lecturer

"Women who eliminate dairy products from their diet
often experience great improvement in their menstrual cycle.
One study found that women with PMS consumed five times more
dairy products than women without PMS."

JOHN ROBBINS
American author,
Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Diet for a New America,
author, The Food Revolution, Conari Press 2000

Countries with the highest consumption of dairy products:
Finland, Sweden, United States and England
Countries with the highest rate of Osteoporosis:
Finland, Sweden, United States and England

Children with chronic constipation so untreatable
that it can’t be treated successfully by laxatives,
who are cured by switching from cow’s milk to soy milk: 44%

JOHN ROBBINS
American author,
Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Diet for a New America,
(excerpt from The Food Revolution, Conari Press 2000)

Iron-Deficiency: Milk is very low in iron. To get the U.S. Recommended Daily Allowance of 15 mg of iron, an infant would have to drink more than 31 quarts of milk each day. Milk also causes blood loss from the intestinal tract, depleting the body’s iron.    

Diabetes: Of 142 diabetic children tested in a recent study, 100 percent had high levels of an antibody to a cow’s milk protein. It is believed that these antibodies destroy the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas.    

Calcium: Green leafy vegetables such as kale are as good or better than milk as calcium sources.

Fat Content: Other than skim varieties, dairy products are high in fat, as a percentage of total calories:

Contaminants: Milk is frequently contaminated with antibiotics and excess vitamin D. Of 42 milk samples recently tested, only 12 percent were within the expected range of vitamin D content. Of ten samples of infant formula, seven had more than twice the vitamin D content reported on the label, and one had more than four times the label amount.

Lactose: Many people of Asian and African heritage are unable to digest the milk sugar, lactose, which then causes diarrhea and gas. The lactose sugar, when it is digested, releases galactose, a simple sugar which is linked to ovarian cancer and cataracts.

Allergies: Milk is one of the most common causes of food allergy. Often the symptoms are subtle and may not be attributed to milk for some time.

Colic: Milk proteins can cause colic, a digestive upset that bothers one in five infants. Milk-drinking mothers can also pass cow’s milk proteins to their breast-feeding infants.