At 01:48 AM 2/22/99 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi Tom,
>
>> Alan:
>> >An answer that most people funded by the milk industry give, i.e.
>> >an answer which provides no contradictory evidence at all. Where
>> >is it and who funded it? Is it not factual that most people stop
>> >or severely cut back the production of the enzymes rennin and
>> >lactase after they wean themselves off of (human) milk? What you
>> >have said (that Carl said) does not explain the high levels of
>> >osteoporosis in the USA at all. If milk is such a good source of
>> >calcium as Carl claims..and you guys drink more of the stuff than
>> >anybody else....
>>
>> Tom:
>> Your correlation that the US has a high level of milk drinking,
>> with high levels of ostoporosis, does not prove a causal link.
>>

Interestingly, there is supposed to be a group of people who do well on
dairy products, and the rest don't:  if this is true then milk *could*
influence osteoporosis in some more than others.

It appears that osteoporosis _is_ influenced by reduced hormone levels, lack
of proper absorbtion and utilization of calcium etc and insufficient
weight-bearing exercise (probably other things as well).

So if you can show that milk could affect hormone levels, absorbtion or
utilization of calcium etc then you have a case against it ?

And remember, there is a difference between raw milk, pasturized milk,
homogonized milk.
So general statements about "milk" could be relatively meaningless.

Lynton