North Americans are some of the least healthy people on Earth. Despite advanced medical care and one of the highest standards of living in the world, one in three Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and 50% of US children are overweight.
This crisis in personal health is largely the result of chronically poor dietary and lifestyle choices. In Whitewash, Joseph Keon unveils how North Americans unwittingly sabotage their health every day by drinking milk, and shows that our obsession with calcium is unwarranted.
Citing scientific literature, Whitewash builds an unassailable case that not only is milk unnecessary for human health; its inclusion in the diet may increase the risk of serious diseases including:
- prostate, breast, and ovarian cancers
- osteoporosis
- diabetes
- vascular disease
- Crohn's disease.
Many of America?s dairy herds contain sick and immunocompromised animals whose tainted milk regularly makes it to market. Cow's milk is also a sink for environmental contaminants, and has been found to contain traces of pesticides, dioxins, PCBs, rocket fuel, and even radioactive isotopes.
Whitewash offers a completely fresh, candid and comprehensively documented look behind dairy's deceptively green pastures, and gives readers a hopeful picture of life after milk.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 613.2/6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781550924565 9780865716766
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- RA602.M54
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- K46 2010eb
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- 1 electronic text (319 p.)
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00226704 (OCoLC)696916035 (CaOOCEL)436559
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Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Advance Praise 2
- Title Page 4
- Rights Page 5
- Dedication 6
- Join the Conversation 7
- Contents 8
- Acknowledgments 10
- Foreword 12
- Introduction 18
- Chapter 1: Our Love of Milk 26
- Chapter 2: The Calcium Crisis 34
- Chapter 3: Udderly Ridiculous 42
- Chapter 4: Cow’s Milk and Human Disease 48
- Chapter 5: The Contamination of Cow’s Milk 94
- Chapter 6: Cow’s Milk and Children’s Health 130
- Chapter 7: The Real Causes of Osteoporosis 176
- Chapter 8: The Hidden Costs of Dairy Products 208
- Chapter 9: Calcium Without Cow’s Milk: Making the Transition 226
- Conclusion 244
- Resources 246
- Notes 256
- Index 316
- About the Author 336
