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- Michelle Schoffro Cook
- January 8, 2012
- 2:30 pm
- 535 comments
The Harvard School of Public Health sent a strong message to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and nutrition experts everywhere with the recent release of its “Healthy Eating Plate” food guide. The university was responding to the USDA’s new MyPlate guide for healthy eating, which replaced the outdated and misguided food pyramid.
Harvard’s nutrition experts did not pull punches, declaring that the university’s food guide was based on sound nutrition research and more importantly, not influenced by food industry lobbyists. The greatest evidence of its research focus is the absence of dairy products from the “Healthy Eating Plate” based on Harvard’s assessment that “…high intake can increase the risk of prostate cancer and possibly ovarian cancer.” The Harvard experts also referred to the high levels of saturated fat in most dairy products and suggested that collards, bok choy, fortified soy milk, and baked beans are safer choices than dairy for obtaining calcium, as are high quality supplements.
Kudos to Harvard for promoting greater consumption of vegetables and fruits, as well as healthier protein options such as fish, beans or nuts. And kudos to Harvard for ignoring the lobbyists and showing the USDA what healthy eating is all about.
Adapted from World’s Healthiest News by Michelle Schoffro Cook, PhD. Get your free e-news subscription here.
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Michelle Schoffro Cook
Michelle Schoffro Cook, MSc, RNCP, ROHP, DNM, PhD is an international best-selling and 14-time book author and doctor of traditional natural medicine, whose works include: 60 Seconds to Slim, Healing Recipes, The Vitality Diet, Allergy-Proof, Arthritis-Proof, Total Body Detox, The Life Force Diet, The Ultimate pH Solution, The 4-Week Ultimate Body Detox Plan, and The Phytozyme Cure. Check out her natural health resources and subscribe to her free e-magazine World's Healthiest News at WorldsHealthiestDiet.com to receive monthly health news, tips, recipes and more. Follow her on Twitter @mschoffrocook and Facebook.
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how sad that money means more than your father.
wow! Seems like everything has to be organic, or we're being loaded with chemicals...
too funny . thanks for sharing
Lovely ideas :) Thank you !
535 comments
+ add your ownFor me, the most significant statement in this article is that the food guide was "not influenced by food industry lobbyists". This is where the misinformation comes from: the powerful corporations who have only the dollar as their incentive - not our health OR, more significantly, animal welfare.
Hahaha..
I don't drink milk because:
1) it's for baby cows
2) it's the pus in it :(
although I do love cheese,darn
Grass fed is so widely used as better, just like hormone free, organic, Pasteur raised, free range.
Most of it is crap...also Australia has plenty of grass fed and look at the state of their health, just as bad as the US.
We are not calves we are human. Pretty simple
what about the fact that saturated fat is ACTUALLY good for you?? or did they miss those studies?? Did they simply come to the conclusion it is bad because it has saturated fat in it as this article implies?? did they study highly processed CAFO milk that is pasteurized and homogenized and laced with powdered milk skim milk? or did they study real dairy.. fresh from healthy cows eating lots of grass getting lots of sun
"That's interesting because cows' milk has been my primary source of calcium for the last 20-some years, and my bones are stronger than most people's. I wouldn't trust Wikipedia on this one... just a suggestion."
I haven't drank milk in over 30 years and have never broken a bone...so what does that mean?
I wonder about the reported ill effects of milk, when factory farmed cows are fed and injected with many chemicals and hormones, which are then fed to us when we drink the milk or eat other milk products. Curiously, osteoporosis is most prevalent in the countries that drink the most milk. We (humans) drink milk from other species, because it is very nutritious, and we are the only species which can milk another species (opposable thumbs are wonderful things). My adult dogs and cats have had no qualms about lapping up cow or goat milk when I've spilled it. I'm sure other animals would, to, if they had the chance.
That’s very good news.
Too bad they waited for decades to pass and millions to die before daring to defy the all-powerful meat & dairy industry.
Hopefully they’ll be a little more gutsy in the future, and hopefully their next statement about dairy will really go into detail about just how toxic dairy actually is, and reveal how many diseases & disorders are actually linked to it.
That's interesting because cows' milk has been my primary source of calcium for the last 20-some years, and my bones are stronger than most people's. I wouldn't trust Wikipedia on this one... just a suggestion.
Excellent article. This was adressed to some extent on comments-- the U.S is like the only major country that uses the bovine growth hormone. Also to get the milk from the cow, they impregnate her and then kill her baby. Also Wikipedia says under protein that milk causes weak bones. Foods that are acid cause the calcium to bond with the excess acid and then it is urinated out. So Americans have plenty of calcium in their diet but too much calcium in their urine. http://bit.ly/oste-o
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