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The Harvard School of Public Health sent a strong message to the United States Department of Agricultural (USDA) and nutrition experts everywhere with the recent release of its "Healthy Eating Plate" food guide. The university was responding to the USDA's new My Plate guide for healthy eating, which replaces the outdated and misguided food pyramid

Harvard's nutrition experts did not pull punches, declaring that the university's food guide was based on sound nutrition research and more importantly, not influenced by food industry lobbyists. The greatest evidence of its research focus is the absence of dairy products from the "Healthy Eating Plate" based on Harvard's assessment that " . . . high intake can increase the risk of prostate cancer and possibly ovarian cancer." The Harvard's experts also referred to the high levels of saturated fat in most dairy products and suggested that collards, bok choy, fortified soy milk, and baked beans are safer choices than dairy for obtaining calcium, as are high quality supplements.

This, of course, goes along with our long standing belief that cow's milk is not good for the sinuses either, since it stimulates the production of mucus, etc. Harvard is actually promoting the consumption of vegetables and fruits, as well as healthier protein and calcium options such as beans, nuts. etc. Just the fact that milk, axccording to this study, is not a food that is recommended, in genera,l should be sufficient for the sinus sufferer to reconsider it.

Dairy products include:

• whole milk
• evaporated milk
• sweetened condensed milk
• skim milk
• butter milk
• powder milk
• cheese
  • cottage
  • aged
  • fresh
  • otherwise processed
  • cream
• sour cream
• cream
• whip cream
• ice cream
• milk shake
• malt--similar to milk shake
• eggnog
• custard
• dulce de leche
• yogurt
• butter
• caseinates
• casein
• whey protein
• every country has very specialized milk products that cannot possibly be included here.