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NEW YORK TIMES COMMITS ANOTHER BONER
To read every word in each daily edition of the New York Times would
take the average reader many hours. In this day and age, most people do
not have time to do that. How do most people read newspapers? They
usually scan them, that's how, taking in headlines, accompanying
photographs, reading a paragraph or two of each story.
On Tuesday, September 14, 1999, the New York Times reported the
calcium/milk controversy. While it takes courage for a newspaper like
the New York Times to even suggest that such a controversy exists, their
coverage of the ongoing debate was anything but heroic or balanced.
HEADLINE:
ADS RAISE QUESTIONS ABOUT MILK AND BONES
Author Mary Murray's story began on page one of the Science section and
continued on page 4. Illustrating the story were photographs of two
advertisements. One was a dairy industry GOT MILK mustache ad. The
other was an ad placed by the Physician's Committee for Responsible
Medicine.
DUELING ADS
The single caption shared by both photos was:
"Dueling ads make contradictory claims on milk and osteoporosis."
One ad took up 7.8 square inches, while the other was nearly three times
as large at 21.7 inches.
In one ad, the text could not be read, save with a powerful magnifying
glass. The other ad was blown up large enough so that New York Times
readers could read every single word including the small print.
Guess which ad was the tiny one, impossible to read?
GOT UNBIASED REPORTING?
THE SUBTLE BRAINWASHING CONTINUES
The lead story in the entertainment section of Tuesday's New York Times
contained a headline running the entire page, and part of that headline
read:
"IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY"
A review of that story makes absolutely no reference to the land of milk
and honey. The story is a book review of a man who left Ireland for the
dream of America. The United States represents a land of opportunity to
immigrants, but Israel was the land of milk and honey.
MORE DAIRY INDUSTRY SUPPORT
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. The author writes:
"CBS should have taken out full-page newspaper ads to thank the
Williamses for their good Nielsen deeds. But that was left to…the
National Fluid Milk Promotion Board which used the sisters to ask, 'GOT
MILK?' With the two sisters together, the ad says: "One cup. Two
straws, Please."
SHILL FOR THE DAIRY INDUSTRY
The New York Times will be rewarded by their shilling, by many thousands
of dollars of future milkstache ads.
THE ACTUAL STORY
Mary Murray interviewed me three weeks before for her story. 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. Although this TRUTH runs
counter to dairy industry lies, the New York Times writer incredulously
attempts to degrade the largest study in the history of mankind! Her
agenda is made clear by such biased reporting.
In order to dispute the study, she interviewed two scientists/employees
of the dairy industry. Dr. Bess Dawson Hughes is the director of Tuft
University's Bone Laboratory. Her colleague, Robert Heaney, appears on
the back of a National Fluid Milk Mustache brochure as the dairy
industry expert.
Dr. Heaney has a long history of receiving financial support from the
dairy industry, despite the fact that he published a paper indicating
that only 25% of the calcium in milk is actually absorbed.
Mary Murray also ignored the protein link. Too much protein (milk is
liquid meat) creates an acid-condition in the bloodstream which must be
neutralized. The body does so by leeching calcium out of the bones.
DOES MILK BUILD STRONG BONES AND PREVENT OSTEOPOROSIS?
That's the conclusion of most physicians, Murray tells us in the opening
paragraphs of her article. What reporting! She gives us the conclusion
before we read the contrary evidence.
Doctors of America, please answer this question. If a woman loses one
percent of her bone density each year after menopause, that must mean
that the calcium comes out of the bones, is carried by the bloodstream,
and is lost forever.
Why does the body not re-absorb this calcium?
Do you imagine that calcium ions from milk wave hello and goodbye to
calcium ions from bones? Does this make medical or physiological sense?
T. Colin Campbell's is a respected nutritional biochemist at Cornell
University. Dr. Campbell's comments were also included in the story:
"When you look at the research you have to start wondering what it is
about this food."
Dr. Campbell points out that in other countries, including China, where
he performed the China Study (referred to by Jane Brody of the New York
Times as the "Cadillac of Nutritional Studies)," women consume
significantly less calcium than American women yet suffer fewer
fractures late in life. If calcium is so important, he asked, how can
that be?
"If you look at intakes of calcium around the world, you find the higher
the intakes, the higher the osteoporosis rates," he said. "Dairy won't
protect against osteoporosis."
GOT MILK? GOT BRAINWASHED! Thanks, New York Times!
Robert Cohen
Executive Director
Dairy Education Board
325 Sylvan Avenue
Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
201-871-5871
http://www.notmilk.com
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