Even sports fans received their daily dose of milk by the New York Times free plug in Tuesday's Sport Section. A page-4 column by Richard Sandomir reported the on and off court successes of Venus and Serena Williams. Two straws, Please. The New York Times will be rewarded by their shilling, by many thousands of dollars of future milkstache ads. I offered her study after study, reference after reference demonstrating that in order for calcium in food to be absorbed, an equal amount of magnesium must also be present.
Green vegetables are high in calcium and magnesium in just the right proportions.
Milk has plenty of calcium but very little magnesium. Nations with the highest rates of bone disease are the ones consuming the greatest amounts of milk and dairy products. These important points were conveniently left out of her story. The New York Times article reported the 78,000-nurse study by Harvard researcher, Diane Feskanich, Ph.D. Dr. Feskanich studied 78,000 nurses over 12 years, monitoring their diets and keeping track of their bone fractures. Contrary to dairy industry propaganda, the Harvard Nurse study revealed that the women who drank two or more glasses of milk a day had a significantly increased risk of hip and forearm fracture compared with those who drank less milk.