itsvondell:

overtheunderpass:

danrezler:

werewolfofwallstreet:

Also it’s super shitty for your skin. I stopped drinking milk last June and my skin’s never been clearer.

You know what they say about there being three kinds of lies?  Here we have all three.  Lies, damned lies, and statistics.  New Rule of Tumblr:  If it’s presented as an info-graphic, treat it as highly suspect.  Starting near the top this claims that milk is the number one cause of food allergies in infants and children.  What they mean is that milk is the number one food children can be allergic to.  Nobody knows what causes allergies yet and it can be any number of factors from the environment to conditions in the womb and any claims that there is a conclusive answer is a knowing lie.  The more egregious claim is that hormones in milk are causing everything from early puberty in girls to prostate cancer.  This is some of the worst deliberate anti-science I’ve seen in awhile.  It’s true that some studies indicate that increased levels of IGF1 are linked to certain health concerns in humans.  What’s not true is that ingesting milk from cows treated with hormones raises humans’ naturally existing IGF1 levels.  Unless you are injecting your milk, multiple studies and the FDA have shown no such risk.  Now there is some truth to this graphic and from a dietary perspective it’s true that most Americans are consuming somewhat too much dairy per capita, but that doesn’t mean you can falsely represent new scientific research which is ongoing and far from conclusive.  

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oh hey, good! good information trumps bad information always