The dairy-melamine scandal in China has shocked the world. The adulterated milk products have killed at least three infants and sickened more than 50,000 in mainland China.

The US has strict inspection procedures and cow milk does not contain melamine for sure. But I do not give my child cow milk. Instead he has been drinking soy milk for more than two years.

I do this because in 2006 I read two books by Jane Plant who is a British Geological chemist, one titled "Your Life in Your Hands and the other "The No-Dairy Breast Cancer Prevention Program".

Professor Plant believes that people should avoid cow milk just like they should avoid smoking.

This conclusion is based her own personal experience. At the age of 50 years, Prof. Plant was diagnosed with breast cancer. During the ten years after diagnosis, she had been subjected to a number of surgeries and a couple of dozens of radiation treatments and chemotherapies.   But the cancer kept coming back.   At the fifth time, the cancer with the size of half an egg appeared in her neck, doctors said she had a few months to live.

In desperation, she decided no longer to trust her doctors. As a matter of fact, trusting her doctors would not help her anyway at this time because she was "sentenced" to death!   She wanted to save herself so she did research on cancer treatment just like she conducted her academic work.

Professor Plant's husband is a geologist. The couple visited china in the 80s for some environmental protection issues.

One day, she suddenly recalled while she was in China, a local colleague mentioned to her that the rate of breast cancer among Chinese women is far much lower than the rate among Western women.

She did some research and found that Asian women who live in the West have the same rate of breast cancer as the local Western women.

She asked her husband why women in China rarely get breast cancer.   The only possible reason they can think of is that the breast cancer risk has something to do with diet.

When they visited China and they found that Chinese people except those who are rich and powerful rarely drink cow milk or eat dairy products. By contrast, dairy products are a major staple in the West.

Professor Plant decided to give it a try to quit the habit of eating two cups of yogurt a day.

To her surprise, six weeks passed and the tumor disappeared!

Before she started avoiding dairy products, she already started using a vegetarian diet.   During the six weeks, the only change was no intake of dairy product.

Professor Plant is a distinguished scientist.  Colleagues witnessed her suffering and recovery. When they knew any of their relatives suffered cancer, they told them to ask professor Plant for help. Professor Plant helped cure more than 60 women (with cancer) by adjusting their lifestyle including diet.