Table of Contents
Introduction: Milk Matters: Me, Maxine, and America's First Fast Food, Milk 1
1 The Dairy Landscape: Mapping the Major Players Promoting Dairy in America 9
2 Ironed Out: Milk Is Making Our Young Sick and Tired 15
3 A Date With MyPlate: A Taste of the USDA's Three-a-Day Dairy Recommendation 29
4 Science Fact or Science Fiction?: Making Sense of the Conflicting Claims about Milk 39
5 Know Your Weights and Measures: Decoding the Riddle of the Daily Value 53
6 Overrated: Tall Tales about Milk's Short List of Essential Nutrients 61
7 The Seeds of Strong Bones: Breaking Up with Milk Is Easier Than You Think 81
8 Milking Calcium: The Dark Side of Our Excessively High Calcium Recommendations 91
9 "D" Is Not for Dairy: Think Daylight and Dried Herbs 105
10 A-Not-Okay: Mad Cow-Engineering to Make Milk for All and All for Milk 119
11 A History of Intolerance: Milk's Journey from Fermented Food to Unsavory Symbol of Power 133
12 The Big Mistake: The Fitness of Lactase Impersistence 151
13 Whole Truth: The Facts About Cutting Milkfat 159
14 Making It Without Milk: Colorful Recipes That Leave Dairy out of the Picture 197
Conclusion: Unholy Holstein Cow: Caution Killer Yields 239
Epilogue: Eat to Love 249
Acknowledgments 251
References 255
Index 303