"If milk, dairy foods, and calcium supplements prevent osteoporosis and its most catastrophic result, hip fractures, the countries that consume the most calcium should have the lowest hip fracture rates. But they don’t. They have the world’s highest rates."

Four worldwide epidemiological surveys conducted by different research teams over twenty years agree that the countries that consume the most calcium (the U.S., Western Europe, Australia, and New Zealand) have the highest rates of hip fracture. Meanwhile, countries that consume little or no milk, dairy, and calcium supplements (much of Asia and Africa) have fracture rates 50 to 70 percent lower than those in the U.S. "

"Hip fracture rates for females in the non-dairy, West African tsetse belt nations of Nigeria and Cameroon average 3.0 hip fractures per 100 000 for women aged 50 years and older.3,4 Among these Bantu-speaking (Niger-Kordofanian) agriculturalists, the rate of lactase non-persistence is 90+ percent. Kenya, on the other hand, is located outside the tsetse zone. Dairy farming/pastoralism is prevalent, and the rate of post-menopausal hip fractures averaged 243 per 100 000.5,6"