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Milk doesn't prevent broken bones (vox.com)
20 points by pshin45 on Nov 4, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


Sweden, where the sun doesn't shine enough to induce a great deal of natural vitamin D production, might not be the best place for such a topic with so many contributing factors. Vox could have written a very interesting article about how to read individual medical studies, the limits of statistics and specific populations, and many other things. But sadly, they did not.


For any food with a large and well-known lobby behind it, look at any health claims with a very skeptical eye.


Fiction: "Milk, Sulphate, and Albie Starvation" deals with someone who realises he is lactose intolerant, and who suggests giving up milk to a bunch of people. The Milk Marketing Board see the slump in sales and decide to act - by sending an assassin.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/094779591X/

I really liked it, but I read it many years ago.




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