The Milk Letter excerpted from A Message to My Patients, by
Robert M. Kradjian, MD Just the word itself sounds comforting!
“How about a nice cup of hot milk?” The last time you heard that
question, it was from someone who cared for you–and you
appreciated the effort. The entire matter of food and especially
that of milk is surrounded with emotional and cultural
importance. Milk was our very first food. If we were fortunate,
it was our mother’s milk. A loving link, given and taken. It was
the only path to survival. If not mother’s milk, it was cow’s
milk or soy milk “formula” –rarely it was goat, camel or water
buffalo milk. Now, we are a nation of milk drinkers. Nearly all
of us. Infants, the young, adolescents, adults and even the
aged. We drink dozens or even several hundred gallons a year and
add to that many pounds of dairy products such as cheese, butter
and yogurt. Can there be anything wrong with this? We see
reassuring images of healthy, beautiful people on our television
screens and hear messages tha