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This is an excerpt from "Milk: The Deadly Poison" by Robert Cohen and makes for quite interesting reading, the best bit is the comparison between beer and milk. The bottom line is drink BEER, milk is bad for you

Milk is the foundation of heart disease and the explanation for America’s number one killer.

• Milk is the reason that one out of six American women will develop cancer of the breast.
• Twenty-five million American women over the age of forty have been diagnosed with bone crippling arthritis and osteoporosis. These females have been drinking in excess of two pounds of milk per day for their entire adult lives. Why are their doctors blind to the fact that drinking milk does not prevent osteoporosis?
• Calcium in milk is not adequately absorbed and milk consumption is the probable cause of osteoporosis.
• Milk is responsible for allergies, colic, colitis, earaches, colds and congestion in young children. Research indicates that one bovine protein in milk destroys theinsulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas, causing diabetes.
• Sixty Percent of America’s dairy cows have leukemia virus. Is it wise to eat the flesh or drink body fluids from diseased animals?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used to allow a small amount of antibiotics in milk. FDA scientists recognized that consumers should not be drinking a fluid containing antibiotics. In 1990, the one part per hundred-million antibiotic residue in milk standardwas increased by one-hundred times to one part per million. As a result, new strains of bacteria developed, immune to the 52 different antibiotics found in milk. Antibiotics no longer work because Americans have been drinking milk and eating dairy productscontaining increased amounts of these powerful drugs and, in addition, new strains of emerging diseases.

Beer bellies are indeed making a comeback in America. According to the Food Consumption, Prices and Expenditures, 1996, Statistical Bulletin Number 928, published by the USDA, the average American consumed 24 gallons of beer in 1994. That works out to less than 8 1/2 ounces of beer per day. Total milk and dairy products consumed per capita in 1994 equaled 26 ounces per day, more than triple the amount of beer. One 12 ounce glass of beer contains 144 calories and no fat. On the other hand, a 12 ounce glass of milk contains 300 calories and 16 grams of fat. It seems that beer is taking a bad rap. Protruding stomachs on overweight people should be called milk bellies, not beer bellies.

(Milk: The Deadly Poison by Robert Cohen 317 pages containing 336 references ISBN 0-9659-196-0-9)