We all learned in elementary school that milk is critical for strong bones and teeth.

Actually, cow's milk is significantly bad for us - especially the pasteurized, homogenized, hormone- and pesticide-loaded stuff that we get at the store.

I know a lot of people whose health improved dramatically after eliminated dairy products from their diets. And for the definitive (and very readable) research on milk and human health, check out The China Study by the eminent Cornell professor T. Colin Campbell.

I know that there seems to be a lot of controversy over whether milk is a health food or a fat-causing killer, but honestly, that's just because the dairy industry has so much marketing money to spend on bogus, bad and confusing studies. The actual science is much clearer than you'd guess.