My local paper, the Arizona Republic, Sun, Jun 25, pg B6: a brief article about
local "lactophiles" playing the milk mustache game, ended with this:
"The National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board, together with Life magazine
and Fuji Film, is kiking off a national search for best milk mustache.  The
grand prize is a full-page ad in an upcoming issue of Life.  Info:
1-800-WHY-MILK."

Longevity, July 1995 (currently on stands) has a short article on pg. 10 giving
a possible link between breast cancer and being left-handed!
Same issue, pg.12, Anti-Aging News: shows a chart of various cancers, the
countries where the incidence is highest & lowest and reasons why.  It shows
breast cancer as the highest in the USA and lowest in Poland.  Reasons:
"Postponing childbearing and menstruating early--common traits in affluent
nations like the U.S.--increase breast cancer risk.  High-fat, high-calorie
diets and obesity, also prevalent in the U.S., may play a role as well.  Slower
growth, which delays menstruation, is more common in less affluent Eastern
European countries like Poland."  (That's it, that's all)  This mag does have a
section called Feedback: The Reader's Page.

Then there's American Health, May 1995.  "Preventing Breast and Ovarian Cancer"
on pg.8 discusses effects of exercise on lowering breast cancer risks by
reducing the number of of menstrual cycles and thus her exposure to those awful
hormones (my editorializing - sorry).  Part of the last paragraph reads:
 "As with exercise and breast cancer, hormones are probably the link between
saturated fat and ovarian cancer.  The reasearchers point to 'ample evidence'
implicating hormones (particularly estrogen) in causing ovarian cancer, and they
note that saturated fat seems to raise estrogen levels."
It has no further discussion of other possible lifestyles connected with cancer
risks.

Pg.12: Medicine:  Antibodies From Cows, discusses injecting cows with microbes,
then extracting antibodies from the milk, or collecting the colostrum.  Then
they make a freeze-dried powder to be stirred into juice or other liquid for
human consumption.  There are 4 co's competing for the first milk-based drug
apprv'd for human consumption by the FDA.  Because it has applications for AIDS
patients, the FDA "has agreed to usher these drugs rapidly through the approval
process once safety and efficacy are shown" but that's 2-3 yrs away.
American Health does have an address to write to for medical questions, but no
letters column.  The addr is on pg.17 of that issue.

We're not through.  Try pg.28:  Altaernative Medicine:  Protesting Homeopathic
Products.  A 42 member group of doc's, pharms, attys & consumer advocates "has
petitioned the FDA to require that the drugs be proven safe and effective before
they're marketed, the same standard other drugs must meet.  'This unusual action
will force the FDA to take a stand on the only quack remedies that can legally
be marketed as drugs,' says Dr. William Jarvis, president of the
California-based National Council Against Health Fraud and one of the leaders of
the petition drive."  The last paragraph in that article:  "Homeopathic remedies
were recognized as drugs in 1938.  In 1962 Congress required that drugs be
proven effective as well as safe, but so far the FDA has not required that
homeopathic treatments meet this standard."

Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC