Not to turn this political, but this seems to be more of Illinois' governor "BLAG"'s brilliant work. He cuts school budgets, sells off pensions for instant revenue, etc. So, not surprising that they've made milk "unhealthy" in school.

***ROLL EYES LIKE MAD***

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Many schools across the country haven't offered whole milk for years. I'm not saying this makes Illinois right, I'm just saying it doesn't make Illinois unusual.

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The dairy industry doesn't want you to know, but milk does not do a body good. Cow's milk is full of growth hormones meant for baby cows; no wonder milk consumption is so strongly correlated with breast and prostate cancer. In particular, IGF-1 (insulin-like growth factor 1) is known to cause cancer in adult somatic cells. The notion of milk being very bad for health seems so alient to most people because we've been indoctrinated into this notion that "milk does the body good". It does not, unless you're an infant drinking your mother's milk. It doesn't even do your bones any good; milk consumption is (much to my surprise) correlated with weak bones. Calcium is correlated with bone health, and most people then jump to the conclusion that since dairy has lots of calcium, it must be good for your bones. Too bad it's not true.

(That site recommends going vegan, which I am not, but their point about the studies regarding milk and bone strength and cancer are legit, and often hushed up by the dairy industry's lobbying and advertisement campaigns.)

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Here, Berkana, since you're tossing out propaganda from biased sources, here's the other side:

http://www.dairymax.com/rBGH.htm

And here's a semi-scholarly look at the issue of calcium and milk from Harvard:

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calcium.html

The conclusion is that milk is a decent and convenient source, though certainly not the only source, of calcium. In the first 30 years of one's life, calcium intake seems to be fairly important.

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