Emily Deschanel is encouraging other mothers to boycott cow’s milk. The ‘Bones’ actress has teamed up with animal rights organisation PETA for a new video campaign, urging women to show compassion for mother cows by raising their children on vegan diets. The 36-year-old actress – who has a 20-month-old son called Henry with her writer husband David Hornsby – says [...]

Concern that the consumption of cow’s milk can upset our body’s hormonal balance. More information: http://NutritionFacts.org and http://www.DrGreger.org

The hormones present in cow’s milk may help explain the association between certain diseases and dairy consumption. More information: http://NutritionFacts.org and http://www.DrGreger.org

Dairy is considered a major cause of the acne epidemic and other more serious chronic diseases in the Western world due to the “abuse” of the mammalian postnatal signaling system by widespread cow milk consumption. More information: http://NutritionFacts.org and http://www.DrGreger.org

The dairy industry is remarkably good at PR. It has Americans believing that drinking milk is good for them, maybe even necessary. It’s not true. They use the slimiest marketing tactics to trick the American public. Did you know that 2% milk is actually 35% fat (that is 35% of the calories are derived from fat)? Fat is what causes [...]

A physicians’ group has petitioned the federal government to remove milk as a required food from the school lunch program. The nonprofit Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine calls milk an “ineffective placebo” and says a large body of research shows that consuming milk does not improve bone health and does not prevent bone fractures and injury in children and adults. [...]

Drinking milk is as American as Mom and apple pie. Until not long ago, Americans were encouraged not only by the lobbying group called the American Dairy Association but by parents, doctors and teachers to drink four 8-ounce glasses of milk, “nature’s perfect food,” every day. That’s two pounds! We don’t consume two pounds a day of anything else; even [...]

In two separate breakthroughs, researchers have revealed that they have successfully created a calf whose milk could be drunk by people suffering from lactose intolerance and a second animal whose milk contains high levels of “healthy” fat found in fish. The cows are part of a growing effort by scientists to make food and drink products from livestock healthier by [...]

Certain types of saturated fats common in today’s Western diet may change gut bacteria and trigger inflammatory bowel disease in people genetically predisposed to the disorder, according to a new study that looked at this relationship in mice. Inflammatory bowel disease includes ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. The University of Chicago researchers said their findings help explain why once rare [...]

The link between asthma and cows’ milk is familiar to many young asthma sufferers and their parents. I first became aware of the connection through my cousin’s experiences with his four-year-old son. Since infancy, my cousin’s son has experienced severe asthma attacks and has been hospitalized twice for asthma-related pneumonia. When his asthma attacks become more frequent or more severe, [...]