"Milk is a deadly poison," according to the Dairy Education Board. In fact, if you peruse this special interest group''s
Web site, notmilk.com, you''ll find dozens of articles about the purported evils of this popular beverage. One claim, for example, is that milk from cows contains cancer-causing hormones and dairy industry dollars have kept that fact bottled up. All of which may leave you second-guessing your next sip. However, nutritionists have found that most people thrive on milk, whether their goal is to lose fat or build muscle. Maybe milk is
really a fat-burning food. In a 6 month study, University of Tennessee researchers found that overweight people who downed three
servings a day of calcium-rich dairy lost more belly fat than those who followed a similar diet minus two or more of the dairy servings.