EBONY MAGAZINE CAUSES ILLNESS I love the uninterrupted solitude of long airplane flights. I get to read scientific papers and unpublished manuscripts without my usually continuous interruption of phone calls and Internet addiction. In between papers, I enjoy going through a variety of complimentary airline magazines that I'd normally not see. On my recent flight to California, I found the current issue of Ebony magazine, a publication targeted to African- American females. I wondered, would the dairy industry include a milk mustache ad in the March 2002 issue? It took me just a few seconds to get an answer to my question. I opened the magazine, and found the table of contents. On the opposite page was a full-page ad of Olympic athlete, Marion Jones. Jones was sporting her milk mustache. There was even a special article beginning on page 74 identifying Jones as America's greatest living female athlete. Ebony took the money for the ad from dairy processors, and became a shill for a product that compromises the health of all African-American women. The new best-selling book, The Okinawa Program, reveals that South African black women eat just 196 milligrams of calcium per day, yet American women, who are eating 986 milligrams of calcium daily, experience eleven times the rate of pelvic fractures as their African sisters. As African-American women read pro-milk propaganda in women's magazines, reinforced by milk mustache ads, rates of breast cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes soar to become epidemics. The March issue of Ebony contains a special section on diabetes. Milk proteins have long been associated with triggering diabetes. Based upon studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of Pediatrics, the October 1992 issue of Scientific American warned: "The National Dairy Board's slogan, 'Milk. It does a body good,' sounds a little hollow these days." More science: http://www.notmilk.com/d.html Despite scientific evidence linking milk to diabetes, Ebony ran a food column (page 66) recommending milk recipes. One dish, vegetable chowder, called for a 12-ounce can of evaporated milk and 1 cup of low fat milk. A second recipe, tri-color coleslaw, contained a cup of yogurt. A third recipe, bread pudding, contained 1 and one-half cups of milk. Page 117 begins a special section on diabetes, explaining that millions of African-Americans have the disease and are not even aware of it. Ebony reports: "Last year alone, more than 800,000 new cases of diabetes were diagnosed, the most ever in a 12-month period. For blacks, the picture is even bleaker. More than ten million African-Americans-1-in-10-have diabetes." Amidst the special diabetes section is a full page advertisement for a diabetic milkshake, Glucerna. Guess what liquid constitutes the base for Glucerna? Yep. Milk. The consumption of cheese has more than tripled in the past twenty years from an average of 10 pounds per person each year to 31 pounds. Combine that with an enormous campaign that targets African-Americans by hiring athletes, models, actresses, and celebrities to pose with milk mustaches, and we find the reason for increased rates of allergies, breast cancer, osteoporosis, asthma, diabetes, and other ailments in the African-American community. Support from magazines that receive ad revenue continues to betray readers. What really causes diabetes? An argument can be made that the key element might very well be women's magazines. __________________________________________________ Robert Cohen author of: MILK A-Z Executive Director (notmilkman@notmilk.com) Dairy Education Board http://www.notmilk.com This file: http://www.notmilk.com/forum/880.txt Do you know of a friend or family member with one or more of these milk-related problems? Do them a huge favor and forward the URL or this entire file to them. Do you know of someone who should read these newsletters? If so, have them send a empty Email to: notmilk-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and they will receive it (automatically)!