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Take care,

Michelene

Dear Editor:
I thought of my lovely maternal grandmother when I read the grim results of a recent study by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute showing that women who consume large amounts of milk may have a higher risk for ovarian cancer. My grandmother died of ovarian cancer at much too young an age. Her doctor had encouraged her to drink plenty of milk containing acidophilus, and regrettably, she followed his unsound advice.

Fortunately, more progressive doctors are now encouraging their patients to avoid milk, as it has also been linked to breast and prostate cancer. High concentrations of IGF-1, a hormone that occurs naturally in humans and cows and in all milk, has been strongly linked to cancer cell growth. This must be because milk is naturally designed to be drunk only by infants, not adults.

Milk also attacked my grandmother’s eyes. She got cataracts in both eyes and had to have surgery to remove them. One of the surgeries was not very successful. According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the milk sugar galactose has been linked to both ovarian cancer and cataracts.

Both clinical and population evidence also implicates milk products in causing, rather than preventing, osteoporosis, which my grandmother also suffered greatly from, because milk’s high protein content leaches calcium from the body. In her later years, my grandmother broke her wrist and several other bones and had to endure the pain as well as the inconvenience of a slow recovery.

All these problems, just for the sake of milk! How I wish I had known then what I know now so I could have encouraged her to abandon the dairy products and switch to plant-based milks, like soy, rice, oat, or almond milk.

Visit www.dumpdairy.com for additional information.

Karen Porreca, 
Director of the Library People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) 
501 Front St. Norfolk, VA 23510 ph: 757-962-8362 KarenP@peta.org

Michelene,
I am really enjoying In Light Times. Articles in the January & February editions have been enjoyable and thought provoking! I love the layout and the use of color to emphasize certain sections…Go Girl!!!

Danielle
New Mexico

Dear Michelene
I’m glad you are feeling better. Thanks for sharing your life with us in your publisher’s column. As I have always said, you make the column real, not just some fluff. Hugs and blessings,

Ann of Henderson