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"I highly recommend this book as it is easy to read yet thought-provoking, controversial but well-researched and literally a life-saver!"
-Green Eatz
"Human beings need to learn what all other animals instinctively know: milk is for infants. Despite the fact that allergies, disease, and obesity can all be linked to our obsession with cows milk, we have bought the milk lobbys fable --hook, line and sinker. Dr. Keons scrupulous research and meticulous documentation will wipe those sinister milk mustaches off all the smirking dairy execs. "Whitewash "is nothing less than a lifesaver."
- Rory Freedman, author, "Skinny Bitch"
Whitewash "is the book vegans have been waiting for, and the one book the dairy industry would most want you not to read. With meticulous references and a passion for his subject, Joseph Keon has written a book packed with vital information and invaluable resources. It is easy to read and backed by science. The author has done a superb job in reveali
-Green Eatz
"Human beings need to learn what all other animals instinctively know: milk is for infants. Despite the fact that allergies, disease, and obesity can all be linked to our obsession with cows milk, we have bought the milk lobbys fable --hook, line and sinker. Dr. Keons scrupulous research and meticulous documentation will wipe those sinister milk mustaches off all the smirking dairy execs. "Whitewash "is nothing less than a lifesaver."
- Rory Freedman, author, "Skinny Bitch"
Whitewash "is the book vegans have been waiting for, and the one book the dairy industry would most want you not to read. With meticulous references and a passion for his subject, Joseph Keon has written a book packed with vital information and invaluable resources. It is easy to read and backed by science. The author has done a superb job in reveali
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great book - debunks dairy myths,
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This review is from: Whitewash (Paperback)
Two most important points in my opinion:1) What country consumes the most calcium? Answer: the U.S. What country has the highest rate of osteoporosis? Answer: the U.S. 2) Of over 5,000 mammals on Earth, only humans drink the milk of another species. Makes no sense whatsoever.
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I wouldn't have a particular problem with dairy products, if only they were relegated to the category of foods that include candy bars, chips, pop, and all the other crap that most people know as crap, and collectively refer to as "junk food" at their local convenience store.Unfortunately, due to the influence and political clout of some of our food industries, [See Part IV of The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health, "Why Haven't You Heard This Before?"] Canada's Food Guide has long been compromised to feature milk and milk products as an entire "food group". In fact, even seemingly well educated people can be so trapped in the mindset of their upbringing, that if confronted by a disparaging remark about dairy products, they may simply respond, "But it's a food group!" Only fairly recently has the guide included alternatives to milk products. And the Canadian Food Guide still does not fully acknowledge the superior health benefits of eating a diet primarily consisting of whole foods. Especially by way of contrasting them to the deleterious effects associated with the consumption of conventionally produced dairy products. There's a good quote at the beginning of chapter one that highlights the absurdity of human populations needing to ingest the milk from cows for the duration of their lives. "It seems ridiculous that a man, especially in the midst of his pleasures, should have to go beneath a cow like a calf three times a day -- never weaned." Henry David Thoreau (Circa 1850)
2.0 out of 5 stars
Better books out there by far,
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This review is from: Whitewash (Paperback)
The good parts of this book include that it points out that commercial milk can cause problems for lots of people's health, that dairy products can have an opiate-like effect and that having lots of calcium in the diet isn't enough to ensure healthy bones.Unfortunately this book also reinforced lots of equally harmful myths (salt is bad for you and low salt diet are best, soy is a health food, saturated fat causes heart disease and low fat and cholesterol diets are best and 15% fat in the diet may not be low enough, vegan diets are best, and so on.) The book also heavily promotes the flawed China Study and its author Dr T Campbell. Pointing out all the problems with eating dairy but then promoting eating lots of soy - a very heavily processed and unnatural food which causes allergies for a similar amount of people as does milk, just makes no sense to me. This book offers far more bad advice than good, sadly. From my own reading I am in the 'commercial dairy foods aren't healthy for anyone (or for the mistreated and misfed cows!)' camp, but also the 'good quality raw dairy foods (from pastured cows) made into kefir and yogurt are probably healthy additions to the diet in small amounts for those that can tolerate them' camp. I do better by far with no dairy or grains at all, but each to their own. (I don't agree that raw milk with all its enzymes removes the problems of poor milk tolerance, as some claim, as this has not been my experience.) This book does a disservice to readers by assuming that all dairy products are commercially made using milk from unhealthy grain fed cows, and not pointing out that many of their comments just don't apply to good quality raw dairy products. Commercial milk is so far removed from normal old fashioned milk, and it is a highly processed product. Of course such a food isn't healthy! But these issues should be separated form the issues with good quality raw milk itself, surely. To get some more reliable and better researched information on what to eat, what not to eat and the reasons for and against eating raw milk products or no milk at all I would instead recommend The Untold Story of Milk, Revised and Updated: The History, Politics and Science of Nature's Perfect Food: Raw Milk from Pasture-Fed Cows and even better Primal Body, Primal Mind: Beyond the Paleo Diet for Total Health and a Longer Life. This latter book provides a real guide to healthy eating and why it is important to eat the foods we evolved to eat if we want to be healthy. It is superior to this unconvincing and skewed book in every way. Jodi Bassett, HFME
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