{"id":1998,"date":"2012-01-16T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/video-how-harvard-disses-dairy-and-why.html"},"modified":"2016-09-19T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:59:14","slug":"video-how-harvard-disses-dairy-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=1998","title":{"rendered":"Video: How Harvard Disses Dairy … and WHY?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/object>The USDA has been producing dietary guidelines for about 100 years now. <\/span>

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The picture has gone from a PIE, to a square, to a pyramid, to a “rainbow pyramid”, to a circular plate. <\/span>

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In this interview, I talk about how this change happened, WHY it happened, and the controversy around it.  <\/span>

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<\/a>I have to say that, for those who are anti-dairy, you may have issues with this piece … I hope not. When Harvard’s School of Public Health  dislodged dairy from the Healthy Eating Plate, it seemed kind of weird, and out of the blue. <\/span>

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So I started reading about their reasoning, and kept coming up with concerns that the Dairy industry has too much influence in policy making.  <\/span>

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Dude, stick to nutrition. It either is okay for you or it is not. I actually agree with them that the overlap between the food industry and the food regulators is WAY too cozy. <\/span>

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But you are the Harvard School of Public Health, not the Harvard School of Public Policy. <\/span>

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Later in the document, Harvard said that the USDA was recommending that you drink MORE milk. However, the recommendations for milk consumption have never increased (it’s always been ~2-3 cups per day). <\/span>

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How could they get that wrong? <\/span>

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Finally, if you have TOO MUCH milk, they say, you could get ovarian or prostate cancer. Really? The “slippery slope argument? Here’s the problem with this concern: <\/span><\/p>\n