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From: tna@tikal.UUCP (Tom Anderson)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Milk is not for every body.
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 15:41:44 EST
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>Along the same lines, is the (apparently) bugus importance of dairy
>products just a bunch of simplistic propaganda promulgated by the 
>dairy industry?

Mostly, yes.

I  am  lactose  intolerant  and,   thus,  avoid all milk products.
Milk  is  a  good  source  of calcium,  but certainly not the only
good  source.  A cup of dry garbanzos,  for example,  has the same
calcium  content as does milk.  Here are the calcium contents of a
few good sources:  

Food		Qty		milligrams of Calcium
-----------------------------------------------------
Milk		8 oz		300
collards	1 c.		220
black beans	1 c.		270
beet greens	1 c.		119
broccoli	1 c.		136
carrots		1 c.		51 
chard		1 c.		106
Garbanzos	1 c.		300
green beans	1 c.		62
kale		1 c.		206
navy beans	1 c.		95
pinto beans	1 c.		257

I figure my calcium intake something like this:

Multivitamin supplement		250 mg
bread (25 mg/slice)		150
other grains or cereals (e.g 
 multigrain breakfast cereal,
 rice, potatoes, etc).		150
vegies, beans, nuts		150
---------------------------------------
Total				700

Which  comes out close to the the 800 mg RDA (most days I probably
come up a little shy,  but I haven't broken any bones yet :-)  ).  

As  for  the  Chinese,   they  employ  various seafood and seaweed
items  that  are  high in calcium (kelp has 156 mg per tablespoon,
many times greater concentration than milk).  

All    calcium    content    figures    are    taken    from   the
_Nutrition_Almanac_  by John D.  Kirschmann.  


-- 
Thomas N. Anderson      ...uw-beaver!tikal!tna 
Teltone Corporation, 10801 120th Ave NE, Kirkland, WA 98033 (206) 827-9626
		"This Statement is False."