Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk and Your Health
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Overview
North Americans are some of the least healthy people on Earth. Despite advanced medical care and one of the highest standards of living in the world, one in three Americans will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime and 50% of US children are overweight.
This crisis in personal health is largely the result of chronically poor dietary and lifestyle choices. In Whitewash, Joseph Keon unveils how North Americans unwittingly sabotage their health every day by drinking milk, and shows that our obsession with calcium is unwarranted.
Citing scientific literature, Whitewash builds an unassailable case that not only is milk unnecessary for human health; its inclusion in the diet may increase the risk of serious diseases including:
- prostate, breast, and ovarian cancers
- osteoporosis
- diabetes
- vascular disease
- Crohn’s disease.
Many of America’s dairy herds contain sick and immunocompromised animals whose tainted milk regularly makes it to market. Cow’s milk is also a sink for environmental contaminants, and has been found to contain traces of pesticides, dioxins, PCBs, rocket fuel, and even radioactive isotopes.
Whitewash offers a completely fresh, candid and comprehensively documented look behind dairy’s deceptively green pastures, and gives readers a hopeful picture of life after milk.
"…Joseph Keon has done us all a great service in writing this book. His research is meticulous, his writing is lucid, and his conclusions are reliable. Whitewash is a doorway through which you can enter into a world of far greater health for yourself and your family. If you heed its messages, your body will thank you for the rest of your life."
— John Robbins, from the Foreword
"Most of us grew up with the idea that milk is healthful, if not essential. And yet research has shown a surprisingly different side to dairy products, linking it to a broad range of serious health problems. Whitewash takes a comprehensive look at the problems associated with drinking milk and the industry that promotes it. This book has the potential to dramatically change your health."
— Neal Barnard, M.D. President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
"Human beings need to learn what all other animals instinctively know: milk is for infants. Despite the fact that allergies, disease, and obesity can all be linked to our obsession with cow’s milk, we have bought the milk lobby’s fable hook, line and sinker. Dr. Keon’s scrupulous research and meticulous documentation will wipe those sinister milk mustaches off all the smirking dairy execs. Whitewash is nothing less than a lifesaver."
— Rory Freedman, author, Skinny Bitch
- Title: Whitewash: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk and Your Health
- Authors: John Robbins, Joseph Keon
- Publisher: New Society Publishers
- Print Publication Date: 2023
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 341
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781550924565, 9780865716766, 0865716765, 1550924567
- Resource ID: LLS:9781550924565
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-21T12:41:09Z
A wellness consultant, nutrition and fitness expert for over 25 years, Joseph Keon is considered a leading authority on public health and is the author of three books, including Whole Health: The Guide to Wellness of Body and Mind and The Truth about Breast Cancer: A Seven-Step Prevention Plan.