date:Sep 18, 2012
se Americans don't get enough of them -- calcium, potassium, vitamin D and fiber-- three are in dairy foods. (There's no fiber in milk.)
Susan Levin, director of nutrition education at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a non-profit that describes itself as promoting preventive medicine and advocates a vegetarian diet, questions the USDA's emphasis on dairy as a major food group.
Levin says there's more marketing than science behind dairy promotion. She points to the dairy chec