I don't eat dairy products. I stopped eating them about ten years ago because they were making me sick. I drink soy milk. My fear is one day they're going to say soy milk isn't good for you, either! At any rate, I think all women should pay attention to their bodies. If dairy products aren't treating you well, don't use them. As for the comment about the model in the ad, she's just a sister trying to make a living. I'm sure she had nothing to do with the content of the article.

The company who did the study, Slone Epidemiology Center, also said that birth control pills don't cause cancer. It's a fact that synthetic estrogen increases breast cancer. Evidently, the company is getting its finances from someone in order to do these studies.

Please do your own research. Everything I have read indicates that milk/dairy products intensify fibroids

I am a big-time milk drinker and I had a myomectomy also on Dec. 5, 2007. I don't know who in the hell researched this study but it is not true!! I have the scar to show it!! I felt better two weeks after my surgery, but dairy products DID NOT help me at all!! So sistas, please do not believe this study, story, or whatever they want to call this.

I am wondering if this includes soy milk. I am lactose intolerant and do not drink regular milk. Is this just on the milk that is produced from cows and I agree with the hormones they are putting into the animals for mass production. It is causing side effects in us and our children.

I am surprised at this article. Consuming dairy products did not decrease my chances of developing Fibroids, if anything it increased it resulting in me having to have a Myomectomy in 2007. I've been told and have read that dairy and meat should be eliminated from your diet.

Not to sound like a conspiracy theorists, BUT this sounds like something we as black people should take into consideration as it being a part of population control.

Essence, I have already been disappointed with your less than responsible and accurate reporting on Fibroids in previous issues. Does all of your information on an issue that primarily affects BLACK WOMEN come from WHITE MEDICINE..the European medical INDUSTRY$$?

Milk & Dairy are one of the CAUSES of fibroids. Milk is for BABY COWS, not GROWN human women & to boot, if you fed the pasteurize milk to a calf YOU WOULD KILL IT!! The DAIRY INDU$$$TRY fattens cows by giving them the FEMALE HORMONE ESTROGEN. That is passed down through the cows MILK & MEAT, which is then absorbed by MY body and UTERINE FIBROIDS grow as they are fed MORE ESTROGEN. Fibroids are caused by TOO MUCH ESTROGEN. Please stop posting stupid stuff like this from Europeans who likely have lobbyists & ties to the dairy industry & don't give a hot damn about black women & our health or fertility but care more about THE BUCKS & want us to have less children.

YOU ALL SHOULD WATCH MAAFA21 please!!
Anyway, if you want to feature advice on BLACK WOMEN'S HEALTH, can you please shake out of this foolishness and bring an AFRIKAN Dr. to the table who loves AFRIKAN women? I suggest Dr.Laila Afrika. You can find his lectures on reproductive health & diet on YOUTUBE. Look for Shola Oslo as well. She SPECIALIZES in fibroids, diet & health. And to the retard below me, SISTER DOES NOT LOOK LIKE AUNT JEMIMA. She looks like a beautiful sister with a beautiful smile who is doing a damn good job of selling that glass of milk which most of us cannot tolerate anyway because of the lactase. Yet Essence pushes this rubbish KNOWING WE ARE LACTOSE INTOLERANT for the most part.

Have the Jews of Time magazine began writing for Essence? Get back in your right minds PLEASE!

That woman look like Aunt Jemima skinning and grinning with a glass of milk.

I'm surprised at this article. I was told by several doctors and have read in research that the estrogen in dairy contributes to uterine fibroids.

We can get our nutrients and vitamins from healthy foods and/or supplements.

It's hard to change habits though, I have it in my coffee (gotta have it) and I LOVE ice cream and cheese; slowly I'm trying to change my habits.

Milk is no good. The chemicals and hormones they pump in these cows links to diseases. People are suffering from asthma and upper respiratory problems, and that is just the the tip of the iceberg. People say its hereditary, but if you stop drinking it or eating cheese, you'll clear up your elements. The protein Casien is used for glue. The poor communities are getting sicker with the WIC program. Milk and cheese for calcium. Ridiculous. You can get calcium from chia seeds, 3Tbs have more calcium then milk. Green lefty vegetables have calcuim in abundance. Watch "Milk the Deadly poison" on Youtube or buy the book and notmilk.com. A black senator is changing things and she is a black woman, like myself. The milk industry has such a hold on the goverment that you can't say anything against milk in certain states. Milk does a body harm. Most African Americans, Black or Burnt Brassed people are allergic to milk. Get of the Cow Breast people or continue to get sick.