The Milk Book - How Science Is Destroying Nature's Neatly Perfect Food. Children are denied whole milk because pediatricians are obsessed with the cholesterol myth. These same gutless wonders don't say anything about children drinking half-a-dozen bottles of Coca-Cola a day, stating before breakfast! But kids can't get a decent glass of milk. Adding vitamin D to milk is a risky business. The New England Journal of Medicine reported many cases of vitamin D intoxication resulting from excessive fortification of commercial milk. Today, you can't get a decent glass of milk. Even if you buy whole milk, thinking it is better than that sickly blue stuff called skim, you can't win, because all of the commercial milk is homogenized. I am convinced that homogenization is even more detrimental to the nutritional quality of milk than the heat processing called pasteurization.

ダグラス博士が放つ本作は、科学という名の下で「完全食」が解体されていく現代の悲劇を暴く、情熱的な告発状です。医学界の既成概念を一蹴し、自然の摂理を重んじる著者の筆致は、単なる栄養学の解説を超え、失われた「本物の生命力」を奪還しようとする反逆の文学としての魅力を放っています。 殺菌や均質化がもたらす豊かさの喪失を鋭く突く本作は、利便性と引き換えに私たちが何を捨ててきたのかを深く問い直します。読後は、当たり前のように食卓に並ぶミルクが、高度な文明批評の対象へと変貌するでしょう。真実を渇望するすべての読者に捧げられた、知的な渇きを潤す挑発的な一冊です。