Milk A-Z [Hardcover]

Robert Cohen (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2001

This beautiffuly illustrated and rigorously researched book will provide convincing and overwhelming evidence for everyone from your doctor to your mother-in-law that milk does not do a body any good. From allergies to zits--including cancer, heart disease, and osteoporosis--each letter of the alphabet contains an average of six citations from scientific journals that present an antidote to a lifetime of dairy industry marketing.

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About the Author

Robert Cohen performed research in the 1970's on the hormonal effects on the brain and behavior. Twenty-five years later, this father of three became concerned about the most controversial drug approval in FDA history, the genetically engineered hormone that is now in our milk supply. Along the way, Cohen discovered that milk is implicated in causing breast cancer, osteoporosis, heart disease, and chronic childhood illnesses. Cohen's skills as a researcher, and his passion for the safety of his family, led to his single-minded pursuit to expose the truth about milk. Based on his exhaustive and comprehensive research over the past six years, Cohen predicted the Mad Cow Disease outbreak. His dogged determination has set the American dairy industry on its ear. To insure that all citizens of the world learn the truth, Cohen founded and is executive director of America's Dairy Education Board, a group of nationally prominent doctors dedicated to dispelling the myth that milk is nature's perfect food.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 63 pages
• Publisher: Argus Pub Inc (July 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965919684
• ISBN-13: 978-0965919685
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #769,006 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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62 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars he whole truth about cow's milk and dairy... for all ages, August 3, 2001

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David Rietz (Goose Creek, SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Milk A-Z (Hardcover)

Mr. Cohen has synthesized the essence of his 580 page NOTMILK.com WEB site, and the companion HUNGERSTRIKE.com (on rbGH shots given to cows to make MORE milk for a glutted market) into a delightful easy to read book that covers diseases from A to Z... and the milk/dairy elements that can cause those problems. Each alphabet letter has quotes from a wide range of respected scientific journals that support the statement he makes for each letter. For the dairy consumer with medical problems... read, heed, abandon dairy... and perhaps get better (or well) for free. If you cannot pass the NOTMILKmans quiz at ... you DO need this book.

By the way. I have been off all milk and dairy for a bit over three years now... and my case of terminal prostate cancer now grows three times more slowly without the bovine-provided IGF-1 growth hormone (one of 59 bioactive hormones in milk and dairy). Just one of many reasons to consider dairy NOT a taste to die for.

20 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Keep a copy on your desk to educate friends & coworkers., January 8, 2004

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Dr. Linda F. Palmer "Baby Matters" (San Diego, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Milk A-Z (Hardcover)

Succinct, enjoyable, quickly assimilated - a gratifying and possibly life-saving read. This book provides a fun and quick overview of the evidence and allegations against cow's milk. Don't be fooled by the cover and title, this book is too technical for young readers, although they'll enjoy the pictures while an adult absorbs and relates the information.

For those unfamiliar with the huge and undeniable body of evidence against cow's milk, I hope this book to be an eye-opener that leads its readers to further research the topic for themselves. Every statement in this book is followed by a solid reference; mostly science journal references. Being only an overview, the volume of references in "Milk A - Z" touches only the tip of the iceberg.

For those familiar with the mound of studies about milk's dangers, this book is a great overview, and brings up at least a few new points to nearly any health conscious reader. Because the evidence and number of studies against milk are so overwhelming, I've found it difficult to even begin to recall or portray all of the allegations to those uneducated. "Milk A - Z" will be a great book to have on hand for every friend or patient I attempt to begin educating about milk's dangers. My husband and I both plan to keep a copy out in open view on our desks at work to open the eyes of all lookyloos.

"A - Z" even has a fun quiz at the end. I'm going to give a copy of this book to my child's school. They've already been resistant to my bringing in science journal studies to refute the milk propaganda they give my kid annually. I wonder whether they'll shelf this book?

Linda Folden Palmer, DC
Author "Baby Matters, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Caring for Your Baby."

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not perfect but invaluable overview, September 5, 2010

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Curious (Corvallis, OR USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Milk A-Z (Hardcover)

Cohen's book is groundbreaking. I appreciate the fact that it is entirely science-based, and he lists the full citations of studies for each health connection he makes between dairy products and health issues. The dots he is connecting are very relevant to health issues today. Many of the issues raised here are rarely touched on in the larger body of nutritional literature, not because they are invalid, but perhaps due to the industrial interests involved. Many of the issues Cohen addresses are great unsolved mysteries in conventional medicine...but the studies he cites show us that they need not be, should not be. The link of hormones in milk (raw, organic, or commercial) to breast cancer raises the question of the involvement of dairy hormones in all cancers, a matter that we all should be concerned with given the skyrocketing rates of cancer. If we can practice prevention by changing our diets, we can save billions of dollars.

Thank you, thank you, thank you Robert for raising awareness of these connections between dairy and health. Of course there should be follow up research, but part of the problem is money, part of it is that allopathic docs are not trained in nutrition (and let's not confuse dietetics and food pyramids with true nutrition). In the meantime, we have to think for ourselves, and this is a wonderful jumping off point for doing just that. Medical library, here I come!

My main complaint is that I was left wanting for more. There is certainly material here for a more extensive book, and Milk the Deadly Poison lacks continuity and flow and gets wrapped up in issues of litigation, etc. More depth of exploration of various health issues and the way dairy is intertwined into our culture would make a fascinating read.