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In fact, it depletes calcium from bones, and previous research shows how drinking milk and dairy products is not associated with fewer fractures, but actually increases the risk of arthritis, asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, Parkinson’s disease, and more.
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FUCK THE MILK FANDOM HERES YOUR PROOF!!!
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anti milk propaganda? on my dash?
These are three separate claims, with three separate links, each of which I looked up.
1) “[DAIRY] depletes calcium from bones”. Link cited
No. Just, no. Someone actually went out and did a study on the proposed mechanism (“milk acidifies the body pH”, which the site says results in decalcification of bones) and found it was garbage: “The modern diet, and dairy product consumption, does not make the body acidic.” Also, “Milk and other dairy products continue to be a good source of dietary protein and other nutrients.” Fun fact: this was also the only study I could find that dealt with this claim, either for or against.
(Plus, the website does not cite a single scientific source or research, and, suspiciously, has a store and testimonials; it’s clearly trying to sell something. Do not trust.)
CONCLUSION: DRINKING DAIRY DOES NOT ‘DEPLETE CALCIUM FROM BONES’.
2) “…previous research shows how drinking milk and dairy products is not associated with fewer fractures” Link cited
This actually depends; evidence from older people doesn’t find a protective factor, but that doesn’t stop milk being a good source of protein and nutrients.
However, and oh God how I laughed, the cited paper even says in the actual abstract that milk does have a protective factor in those whose bones are still growing, even if they’re engaged in high-impact activities: “CONCLUSIONS Vitamin D intake is associated with lower stress fracture risk among adolescent girls who engage in high levels of high-impact activity. Neither calcium intake nor dairy intake was prospectively associated with stress fracture risk.” You see, funnily enough, almost all US milk is fortified with vitamin D, according to the National Institute of Health, which the paper found was a protective factor.
Also, I find it deeply suspicious that a paper whose aim was “to identify whether calcium, vitamin D, and/or dairy intakes are prospectively associated with stress fracture risk” was reported by these guys as showing “ how drinking milk and dairy products is not associated with fewer fractures”. That’s not the same thing, and it’s a mistake at best, dishonest reporting at worst.
CONCLUSION: THERE’S A STRONG SUGGESTION THAT FORTIFIED MILK IS ACTUALLY PROTECTIVE AGAINST BONE FRACTURES IN ADOLESCENTS.
3) “[Drinking cow’s milk] actually increases the risk of arthritis, asthma, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, Parkinson’s disease, and more” Link cited
This entire claim relies on taking, as gospel truth, the work “Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow’s Milk and Your Health” by nutritionist Joseph Keon, Ph.D. It also has the title ‘Milk Drinkers Suffer The Most Bone Fractures’, which, as I took pains to discuss, is laughably false.
This Keon dude: he is suspiciously un-Googlable. He has no website nor contact form available; there seems to be no record of his Ph.D; and, most damningly, he’s a nutritionist. The term ‘nutritionist’, unlike ‘dietician’, is not a protected term. Absolutely anyone can call themselves a nutritionist, regardless of their qualifications. Hell, I could say I’m a nutritionist.
Literally all I could find about him (it was in the description for one of his YouTube videos) is that he’s a qualified personal trainer, which does not qualify him to make broad medical claims, like ‘stop drinking dairy because science’. The YouTube video in question has him getting some embarrassingly simple medical facts wrong (no, neutrophils are not pus, they are the predominate cell type in the billions of unactivated white blood cells in a mammal’s blood), and his entire argument is an argument from correlation. Basic science 101: correlation does not equal causation. (See the infamous ‘global warming is killing pirates’ graph.)
In point of fact, the link also makes this error: “Consider this: Americans consume large amounts of dairy products and also have one of the world’s highest incidence of bone fracture.” Well, yeah, but the US also has one of the highest rates of obesity in the world. Obese people, when they fall, hit the ground with more force, and may mean they’re more likely to break a bone. Or, hey, alien abduction claims are more prevalent in the United States than other countries(1); maybe all these broken bones are from people falling out of UFOs! Correlation does not equal causation, people.
As it is, I’m not keen on spending the money to buy this book. There are enough red flags about the author and his dubious claims (What is his Ph.D even in? Where is that Ph.D. from, exactly? Might it be from the same place that Gillian McKeith got hers?), not to mention the evidence that he doesn’t even understand basic medicine, so I’m not convinced. CONCLUSION: BASED ON AVAILABLE EVIDENCE, THIS IS PSEUDOSCIENCE.
If you don’t want to drink milk, fine. Whatever your reasons are, I don’t actually care; they’re none of my business, and it’s your choice what you choose to put into your body (or not, as is the case). You might have an allergy, or you might have an intolerance, or you might just find it gross, like my sister does. (She hates the stuff.) But don’t you dare, don’t you dare try to argue that it’s somehow ‘poisonous’ with pseudoscience and lies about peer-reviewed research; don’t you dare fear-monger people into dropping what is a cheap, easily-available source of protein and fortified vitamins to millions, especially for children; don’t you dare scare people out of what might be their only good source of calcium, especially if they live in poverty, or a food desert, and can’t get access to vegan sources.
Don’t you dare.
(1) Sheaffer, Robert. “A Skeptical Perspective on UFO Abductions.” In: Pritchard, Andrea & Pritchard, David E. & Mack, John E. & Kasey, Pam & Yapp, Claudia. Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference. Cambridge: North Cambridge Press, 1994. Pp. 382–388.