There are experts and MD’s aplenty that are vilifying milk as a cause for prostate cancer, osteoporosis, and other diseases. Once again, I’m very skeptical of these experts. I’ve worked in the health care industry and with several companies from pharmaceutical to diagnostic laboratories. I’ve seen my share of studies paid for by the companies that benefit from the results. My advice to you is to stop putting MD’s and PhD’s on a pedestal. Sure, some are brilliant and many are honest without an axe to grind. However, statistics can be manipulated. Not that the information in these studies isn’t true, but they can be presented in a misleading manner, and they like to keep getting hired. Be sure before you jump on any crusade based on a study to follow the money. Who paid for the study? Who benefits from this information? Has there been conflicting information from other studies? For instance, what I do know about prostate cancer is that if you are a man and have a healthy dose of testosterone running through your veins and if,God willing, you live long enough, you will leave this world with prostate cancer and not from it. That is a fact. Now it’s my public school educated mind speaking here, but working in health care and having a steady helping of expert opinion has caused me to question everything and take nothing at face value.
No study performed here, just some common sense. What I do know is mammals produce milk to feed their young; it is natural and essential. Babies’ bodies and brains develop and grow more when they are drinking milk than when they move to solid food. Simply put, I believe that the growth properties associated with milk could lead to feeding and growing certain types of cancer not starting them. I believe your DNA has more to do with your cancer than your dairy habit. Of course that lies in the genetic code as well. Bottom line, we all are going to die of something. Eat reasonably, don’t overindulge, relax, and don’t get all worked up every time you hear something like this. You are more likely to die of a heart attack worrying about it. So pour yourself a glass of milk, put another pad of butter on your biscuit, and enjoy your day.