[cageface]

Taller is not necessarily healthier. Cows milk is designed to bring a cow to adult size in one year. It has a very different composition than human milk. There is a lot of evidence that feeding that kind of rocket fuel for growth to humans has some serious downsides. Drinking milk in teenage years, for example, raises the risk of prostate cancer by 300% later in life.

[rayiner]

> Taller is not necessarily healthier.

It is, however, closely linked to status, especially in the developing world. Telling Bangladeshis they shouldn’t eat meat because Westerners blew the global CO2 budget is... problematic.

[otterley]

Do you have a citation to a peer-reviewed study for this claim?

[cageface]

Here’s a recent review of science we have on the issue.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25527754

[otterley]

Where's the 300% number? Unfortunately, I don't have access to the text. In the abstract, they're only claiming "positive association."

[cageface]

I don’t have the source for the 300 figure at hand now. I’ll try to find it again. Here’s a video review with links to sources that goes a lot deeper into the issues.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/dairy-and-cancer/