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From the 20 December 2000 Issue:

MILK CAUSES "BEDWETTING"
By Robert Cohen

Dear Friends:

Have you seen the new Mark McGwire public service TV announcement? Mark is promoting the bed-wetters hotline by asking you to call and "hit a home run."

1-888-WAKE DRY I called, and here's what I got:

"Thank you for calling the national kidney foundation." I then listened to a phone menu of eight choices, but bed-wetting was not one of the options.

Two years ago, Mark McGwire posed for a milk mustache ad. He received a $25,000 fee from the National Fluid Milk Processors for endorsing milk.

Bed-wetting, or enuresis affects an estimated 7 million children over the age of five. There is a strong correlation with bed wetting and milk consumption.

McGwire endorses dairy, and seeks to end bed wetting. He just doesn't get it.

If you know a child who suffers from bedwetting, or if you know Mark McGwire, perhaps you could share the following dozen references:

• "Foods suspected to be contributing agents for enuresis include dairy products..." http://www.aafp.org/afp/990301ap/1205.html
• "Limit dairy products..." http://familydoctor.org/handouts/366.html
• "Nocturnal Enuresis Behavior had cessation in their nocturnal enuresis after dairy products were eliminated..." http://www.duj.com/Johnson.html
• "Sensitivities among bedwetters include certain dairy foods..." http://www.healthsurfing.com/2000/02/17/
• "If the child is not distressed by enuresis and not yet motivated to begin ... bladder. Elimination diets, usually limiting dairy products..." http://nsweb.nursingspectrum.com/ce/ce107.htm
• "Eliminate all dairy products and gluten containing grains..." http://www.dcnutrition.com/problems/Detail.CFM?RecordNumber=345
• "I have a son, 7-1/2, who has a terrible problem with enuresis. We discovered last March that our son is allergic to milk..." http://www2.ios.com/~tis/milk.html
• "If several exams are negative, the next thing to do is to eliminate dairy for a month..." http://bcn.net/~stoll/archives/bedwetting/44237.html
• "Change diets to combat enuresis (and constipation, which often accompanies it) by eliminating dairy and sugar for two weeks..." http://www.healthshop.com/article/default.asp?category_id=758&article_id=808
• "Bed-wetting of a pair of identical twins experience enuresis intolerances to certain foods--such as dairy products..." http://www.vhi.ie/article/gale/100084916
• "Correlation between milk and dairy product consumption..." http://www.direct-ms.org/food.html
• "Correlation between milk and dairy product consumption..." http://www.chetday.com/msandfood.html  

SOURCE: Robert Cohen http://www.notmilk.com

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