Dispels misconceptions about milk and its crucial role in health, revealing the many ways in which dairy can actually be harmful, and provides dairy-free recipes and full meal plans.

Introduction: Milk matters : me, Maxine, and America's first fast food, milk -- The dairy landscape : mapping the major players promoting dairy in America -- Ironed out : milk is making our young sick and tired -- A date with MyPlate : a taste of the USDA's three-a-day dairy recommendation -- Science fact or science fiction? : making sense of the conflicting claims about milk -- Know your weights and measures : decoding the riddle of the daily value -- Overrated : tall tales about milk's short list of essential nutrients -- The seeds of strong bones : breaking up with milk is easier than you think -- Milking calcium : the dark side of our excessively high calcium recommendations -- "D" is not for dairy : think daylight and dried herbs -- A-not-okay : mad cow-engineering to make milk for all and all for milk -- A history of intolerance : milk's journey from fermented food to unsavory symbol of power -- The big mistake : the fitness of lactase impersistence -- Whole truth : the facts about cutting milkfat -- Making it without milk : colorful recipes that leave dairy out of the picture -- Conclusion: Unholy Holstein cow: caution killer yields -- Epilogue: Eat to love.