Got Milked?: What You Don't Know About Dairy and the Truth About Calcium
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (685 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0062362089 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 336 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Useful and important An excellent account of little known information about the products and processes of modern milk. strongly recommended for all professionals who deal with pregnant and lactating women in particular, who are often encouraged to drink milk to excess at precisely the time when this does most damage. Well worth reading by anyone interested in modern diet. Well-written and easy to read, well referenced. Perfectly comp. anonymous said Simply promoting transparency. Carefully researched and well presented options. Simply promoting transparency and advocating for the consumer to make their own choices.There is so much resistance to change when it has to do with questioning establishment. Soon it will be obvious that we as consumers need to make individual educated choices, thanks to authors like this.smart interview:https://soundcloud.com/am6Simply promoting transparency anonymous Carefully researched and well presented options. Simply promoting transparency and advocating for the consumer to make their own choices.There is so much resistance to change when it has to do with questioning establishment. Soon it will be obvious that we as consumers need to make individual educated choices, thanks to authors like this.smart interview:https://soundcloud.com/am640/mcarthurauthor-alissa-hamilton-. 0/mcarthurauthor-alissa-hamilton-. Five Stars Really good
A former Food and Society Fellow with the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Hamilton lives in Toronto, Canada.. An authority on food processing and marketing issues, Hamilton has written for major publications and academic journals. Oz Show and ABC World News with Diane Sawyer; and has been featured in the Guardian, The Atlantic, NewYorker, the New York Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and Wired, and on NPR
Refuting the milk industry’s overwhelmingly popular campaign—“Got Milk?”—which has convinced us that milk is essential, this scientifically based expose proves why we don’t need dairy in our daily diets, how our dependence on it is actually making many people sick, and what we can do to change it.Bolstered by the dairy industry and its successful “Got Milk?” advertising campaign launched in California to help declining milk sales, as well as the government’s recommended dietary guidelines, many Americans view cow’s milk as an essential part of a daily diet, unequaled in providing calcium, protein, and other nutrients and vitamins. But as food processing and marketing expert Alissa Hamilton reveals, cow’s milk is far from essential for good health, and for many, including the majority of American adults who can’t properly digest it, milk can actually be harmful.In Got Milked, Hamilton turns a critical eye on the Dairy Food Group and the promotional programs it supports to dispel misconceptions about milk and its crucial role in our he
“In prose as pungent as a sharp cheddar yet smooth as a vanilla shake, Hamilton shows how a foodstuff that can’t be digested by a large swath of people came to be promoted as a universal necessity by US health authorities.” (--Tom Philpott, food and agriculture correspondent, Mother Jones)“Got Milked is a welcome and much needed counterpoint to the milk industry’s heavily marketed message that milk is a magic fairy food that confers the health of immortal unicorns and bones of steel.” (--Yoni Freedhoff, author of The Diet Fix, Assistant Professor Family Medicine, University of Ottawa)