Frank Oski: Quotes about drinking

Frank Oski was American pediatrician. Explore interesting quotes on drink.

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“At last a growing number of physicians, private citizens and even the Federal Trade Commission are beginning to re-examine these long standing and deeply ingrained beliefs in the virtue of cow milk. And even Richard Nixon and John Connally came to realize that cow milk may not be good for you. The fact is: the drinking of cow milk has been linked to iron-deficiency anemia in infants and children; it has been named as the cause of cramps and diarrhea in much of the world's population, and the cause of multiple forms of allergy as well; and the possibility has been raised that it may play a central role in the origins of atherosclerosis and heart attacks.”

Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 3

“Cow milk has no valid claim as the perfect food. As nutrition, it produces allergies in infants, diarrhea and cramps in the older child and adult, and may be a factor in the development of heart attacks and strokes. Perhaps when the public is educated as to the hazards of milk only calves will be left to drink the real thing. Only calves should drink the real thing.”

Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 84

“"But, doctor, what will happen to my teeth and bones if I stop drinking milk?" Nothing. Nothing that wouldn't have happened anyway.”

Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 50

“But, doctor, what will happen to my teeth and bones if I stop drinking milk?”

Nothing. Nothing that wouldn't have happened anyway.
Source: Don't Drink Your Milk! (1983), p. 50