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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Why wouldn't they drink milk?

Because there are better ways to get the major nutrients in milk. Calcium and protein are the big reasons that people think milk is important. If they are drinking 6 litres per week, that is about 3900 calories. That is a lot of calories and a lot of liquid volume for the amount of calcium and protein it gets you. For example, spinach, broccoli, and other vegetable contain significant amounts of calcium and are less caloric and less volume than milk.
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Exactly.  When are people going to wake up and quit falling for the lies of the dairy industry?[/quote]

It's not the dairy industry. Most nutritionists favor milk, too, for calcium.  You'd have to eat 8 cups of spinach to get the same amount of calcium that's actually absorbed, as in one glass of milk.  That's really hard to do. Dairy has a very legitimate place in our diets.

Now, whether we actually need the 1,000mg each day, that's another story. That's being newly examined again. But don't blame it in the dairy industry. They make market standard scientific findings, but they aren't making things up. At least not with respect to calcium.[/quote]

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