Stare Tells Possible Effect of Milk on Diet

Any boy who drinks more than two glasses of milk a meal might endanger his health," Dr. Frederick Stare, head of the Department of Nutrition, warned yesterday. Stare had given a speech in Atlanta, Ga., Thursday on the effect of milk on the diet.

Stare does not advocate any restriction in Harvard dining halls, though. "Too much milk fills up a person's stomach and crowds out the other essentials, but it seems to me that Harvard men eat like horses anyway," he commented.

A waitress at the Union observed that the average milk drinker "drinks four glasses of milk a meal."

"Milk is a highly desirable food for infants, children and adolescents" but is not "an essential constituent of adults' diets," Stare told a group present for the final day of a four day course in "Epidemiology and Control of Milkborne Disease."

In the past five years the federal government has instituted research programs to ascertain whether cancer was caused by milk-drinking. Stare had no comment on this.