Don't Drink Your Milk!: New Frightening Medical Facts About the World's Most Overrated Nutrient [Paperback]

Frank A. Oski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1992

CAUTION: Milk Can Be Harmful to Your Health! The frightening new medical facts about the world's most over-rated nutrient. If you drink milk, you MUST read this. Frank Oski, MD, is the Director, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center. Now includes an appendix of recent studies related to milk.

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About the Author

Frank A Oski, born in 1932, is a graduate of Swarthmore College and received his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. He served his internship and Pediatric residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and then studied hematology as a Fellow at Harvard at the Boston Children's Hospital. He was appointed as an Associate in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1963 and assumed the post of Professor and Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, State University of New York, Upstate Medical Center, 1972. In 1985 he assumed the position of Director, Department of Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Physician-inChief, the Johns Hopkins Children's Center.

Product Details

• Paperback: 115 pages
• Publisher: Teach Services Inc; 9 edition (April 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0945383347
• ISBN-13: 978-0945383345
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #553,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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145 of 163 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The real FACTS on milk at last!, October 5, 2003

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Bluestream (in my world) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Drink Your Milk!: New Frightening Medical Facts About the World's Most Overrated Nutrient (Paperback)

At last someone has written an entire book dedicated to this subject! I started finding out about the disadvantages of drinking pastuerized milk in 1999 from a book called "The Tao of Health, Sex and Longevity" by Daniel Reid (available from Amazon).Reid concluded that milk actually curdles in the stomach and makes other food indigestible, and also pasturization destroys all enzymes and nutrients in it. Since that book, I stopped drinking milk and my complexion got better,and the acne disappeared. Also i used to have stomach problem (keeps having diarrhoea after drinking milk), and that disappeared as well.

And now more and more doctors are coming out with the same infomation on milk. Dr RObert Young, a microbilogist (author of "The pH Miracle") says from his study, says the biggest misconception of society is that milk, being a calcium product, will give us calcium. It has been concluded now that this is not the case. <b>Milk, is actually bleaching calcium from our bones, not putting calcium into it.</b> Dr Young says milk contains lactose, which is a sugar in the body, and when sugar is released into the bloodstream, calcium is used by the body from our calcium reserves in our body (eg the bones), to neutralize the acids of the sugar. Moreover, <i>Dr Young does real live blood analysis, and he says if you look at your red blood cells after drinnking milk, you wont be happy,</i> as it makes the red blood cells stick together and fill them with bacteria and toxins. And studies done in the 1980s already showed that people who drink milk each day, have the weakest bones of all, while people who drink less or avoid it altogether invariably have stronger bones. Anthony Robbins in his first book "Unlimited Power" also cited the same research result in 1986.FOr those who are interested, read the other books as well as they support the information the author is saying.

The western countries who drink a lot of milk have the highest cases of osteo and weak bones in the world, compared to Asian countries. This should already give you a clue.

80 of 90 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must read for expectant mothers!, September 5, 2005

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Dr. Data, not Dogma (Alexandria, VA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Don't Drink Your Milk!: New Frightening Medical Facts About the World's Most Overrated Nutrient (Paperback)

I already owned this book (I'm a gynecologist), but I bought this copy to give to my daughter's pediatrician. At our annual visit, she asked my daughter "Have you been drinking your milk?" just like the American Dairy Council wants her to do and I felt a need to educate her. Much of what doctors are taught about the "value" of milk products is supported by Dairy Council funding in one way or another and is certainly not based on science. Our country's "recommended requirement" for calcium is more than twice that of the rest of the world. (Most doctors don't know this.) (Check out the WHO website). Why is that? In order to help sell more milk perhaps? Think about it and definitely read this book. It's full of very interesting data.

93 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good information, February 22, 2002

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This review is from: Don't Drink Your Milk!: New Frightening Medical Facts About the World's Most Overrated Nutrient (Paperback)

Humans beyond the age of weaning don't need to drink milk. My doctor has been telling me that for years. If you want to know all the reasons why we don't need it, buy this book. I was expecting some sort of fanatical rantings, but the information is well balanced and researched.