Not MILK

Are Your Friends Fat Cows?
In 1985, the average American woman wore a size 8. Today she wears a size 14.
How could American women go from size 8 to size 14 in just 17 years?

What other change has occurred in less than two decades? During the 1980s, the average American woman was eating 10 pounds of cheese per year. Today, she consumes an average 31 pounds per year. It takes 10 pounds of milk to produce one pound of cheese, so 310 pounds of saturated, fat-rich, high calorie milk with growth hormones fuel America's obesity epidemic.

Like the baby calf drinking her mother's milk, the average American female body, more and more, is resembling that of a bovine.

It is easy to gain weight by eating pizza, ice cream, yogurt, and milk. It is also easy to slim down from size 14to size 8 again. The dietary answer: NOT MILK! http://www.notmilk.com/

food corporations- why we can't trust them

US is in the midst of growing epidemic of diet-related health problems, such as obesity, heart disease, cancers and diabetes.

Nearly half the children in North America will be overweight or obese by 2010—just three years from now—according to a recent report in the International Journal of Pediatric Obesity. Since 1980, obesity rates have doubled in children and tripled in adolescents.
Experts have written extensively about our TOXIC FOOD ENVIRONMENT caused in large by those corporate marketing strategies food corporations throw at us.
Food makers are reacting in different ways, but their main motivation always is to spin a positive corporate image and stave off threats of goverment regulation and private litigations over their products, as well as practices of course.
Lawyers and nutricionistst, and various organizations believe that solving the nation's diet-related health problems is simply a matter of persuading food manufacturers to change their behaviour. They are hoping that corporations have conscience and will eventually do the right thing, even if it means a loss of profit. But the fact is a corporations is a fundamentally amoral institution. They go by a set of fiduciary principles that have little to do with personal morality and everything to do with growing profits. In other words, a corporation's ability to do the right thing, is circumscribed by its very organizing principles, which command it to act exclusively in it's own self-interest. We cannot expect food companies to do the right thing, nor should we believe them when they claim that they are!

The vast majority of all cancers, cardiovascular diseases, and other forms of degenerative illness can be prevented simply by adopting a plant-based diet.A vegan diet—particularly one that is low in fat—will substantially reduce disease risks. Plus, we've seen no disadvantages from veganism. In every respect, vegans appear to enjoy equal or better health in comparison to both vegetarians and non-vegetarians.

Our anatomy reveals that we are herbivores, as does our natural aversion to meat and the fact that it is harmful to our health. Meat-eaters are out of step with our evolutionary past. Our closest living relatives—the great apes—and ancestral human populations are and have been predominately vegetarian. They may eat the occasional rodent and some raw bugs, but the vast majority of their caloric intake is herbivorous. The key to human health lies in adopting a diet that is consistent with their anatomy and evolutionary history.