Milk In The Diet

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30632, 24 December 1964, Page 10

Milk In The Diet

Sir.—lf authorities insisted on vegetable and fruit juices in schools instead of milk, operations for tonsils, adenoid, sinus, and antrum would decline rapidly. Many of our wiser doctors are aware of this. Recently a machine for extracting natural milk from grasses and weeds was invented by an enlightened person who is in some doubt as to whether he will be permitted to market his product owing to the concern of the dairying industry. If we are not permitted to partake of human milk permanently, and if calves are weaned from their mother’s milk without harm, why should cow’s milk be necessary for humans? In numerous cases it causes untold damage to the human body under the disguise of various medical terms.—Yours, etc, SUCH IS LIFE AND TRUTH.

December 16, 1964. [The Medical Officer of Health (Dr. L. F.' Jepson) says: “Milk is an exceptionally valuable food throughout the whole period of growth, but its value can be overstated. Most nutritionists agtee that unlimited milk in amounts of about two pints a day is not desirable, and that the department in fact advocates a normal mixed diet. There is still truth in the old adage that “one man’s meat is another man’s poison” in regard to all foodstuffs.”]