Mona's Child

Today, I am urging you to write to one of America's great syndicated columnists, Mona Charen. I happen to be a big fan. Mona's Email address is included at the conclusion of today's column. 

Matt Drudge (the reporter who broke the Monica Lewinsky story) averages 3.8 million visits to his website each day: drudgereport.com. On his site, Drudge includes links to nine dozen columnists. One of those select writers, Mona Charen, wrote the following about her 7-year-old son in this week's April 25, 2003 column: 

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/charen.html 

"David is just instinctively amusing, and irrepressible... David has experienced a challenge in the past year, a diagnosis of Type I diabetes. For a child whose favorite things in life could be grouped in the ice cream, candy and cake categories, this seemed a cruel fate..." 

I spoke with Mona on Monday evening. That conversation was the first time she had heard of a milk and dairy link to diabetes. I then shared with her two Emails, the first one a page from my book, Milk A-Z: 

http://www.notmilk.com/d.html 

The second one was written by John McDougall, MD, one of America's most respected physicians: 

http://notmilk.com/forum/985.html 

I told Mona that in October of 1992, after reporting the milk/diabetes link, Scientific American magazine editorialized: 

"The National Dairy Board's slogan, 'Milk. It does body good,' sounds a little hollow these days." 

Please let Mona know how much you care about her son, and about all mothers who suffer the pain of a diabetes diagnosis. Her Email address: 

charen123@cox.net 

Mona has the power to reach millions of readers by using her magnificent gift of painting pictures with words to illustrate the true diabetes story. Please help her to see that she will be improving the health of her son and many other children by dedicating a future column to these three D words: Diabetes, Dairy, and Deception. 

Robert Cohen

http://www.notmilk.com

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