Cow’s Milk is Bad for Humans

People who have been taught that cow’s milk is the “perfect food” may be shocked to hear many prominent medical doctors are now saying dairy consumption is a contributing factor in nearly two dozen diseases of children and adults.

Doctors say cow’s milk can lead to iron deficiency anemia, allergies, diarrhea, heart disease, colic, cramps, gastrointestinal bleeding, sinusitis, skin rashes, acne, increased frequency of colds and flus, arthritis, diabetes, ear infections, osteoporosis, asthma, autoimmune diseases, and more, possibly even lung cancer, multiple sclerosis and non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

In American society, one of the most sacred of all sacred cows is the milk of the cow itself. Cow’s milk is more American than apple pie, but that’s because apple pie doesn’t have Congressional lobbyists and a multi-million dollar advertising budget. Most parents wouldn’t think of raising their children without the benefit of cow’s milk to help their little bones to grow big and strong. Its silky, white texture is the very epitome of our concept of wholesome purity.

From where does the milk come?

I have hated milk from my very childhood, but because everybody loved my body, and my family insisted that without milk you cannot remain the way you are, I had been drinking milk against my will. That is the only thing in my life that I have done against my will. And the only way I could manage it was to stop breathing and take the whole glass in a single gulp so that I didn’t smell it, because I can’t stand it. I have tried all kinds of milks, but I can’t stand the smell.

My feeling has been always — and I told my family” — Jainas should stop using all milk products because milk is just like meat. It is not vegetarian, it is animal food; and it has a double violence in it. From where does the milk come? It is the mother’s mechanism, biological mechanism, that transforms her blood into milk. You are really drinking white blood.”

My grandmother used to close her ears, “Don’t say such words because then I will not be able to drink it. I will remember’white blood.’ Never do such things to an old woman like me.”

Now, Jainas cannot live without milk because that is their only vital food ingredient; otherwise, everything is just vegetable. So they eat all kinds of milk products — butter, ghee, curd — and all kinds of sweets made of milk. But I had a strong feeling from the very beginning that this was just blood. That’s why it increases your blood so quickly, and that’s why the child needs only milk; that’s enough, that is all his food. The mother’s milk provides the child all necessary food; nothing else is needed — and those are the days of its growth. So milk is a whole food.

THE MILK DIETER MONK’S MIND ON OTHERS’ COWS… (OSHO)

There are a few people who have decided to consume milk only. They think milk is the purest food.

I was a guest for some time in Raipur. There is a community there — of the milk drinkers sect. Milk is the only diet of the people living there. They thought they would be healthier with milk. Have you gone mad? In the first place, the milk you are drinking has not been produced for you. You drink cow’s milk, no? It is produced for calves. It is for growing bulls. Milk is not a pure food. From milk, sex desire will awaken. And sex desire like that of a bull — not just a little, because god made it for a bull not for you.

And the nature of milk is to be a provision for the child, so the child can get milk until he can digest food. After a certain age no animal drinks milk, with the exception of man. Man makes unnatural arrangements. To drink a little in tea, a little in coffee is okay, but don’t become a milk dieter.

Cow’s milk,red meat and low-fiber diets increase risk of lymphatic cancer, says new research

New research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology shows that diets high in animal protein (red meat), saturated fat, eggs and dairy products (cow’s milk) leads to an increased risk of lymphatic cancer (non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or NHL). Simultaneously, the study concluded that diets high in plant fiber — from broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes and other vegetables — resulted in a 40% decrease in the risk of lymphatic cancer. It’s an interesting study, but here’s the real story:

This study brings new scientific support to some of the dietary suggestions I’ve been sharing with readers for quite some time. Namely, red meat is bad for you, cow’s milk and dairy products are bad for you, saturated animal fat is bad for you, and vegetables and dietary fiber and good for you. I realize that’s an oversimplification of the research, but it’s also a valid summary of it.

Red meat and cow’s milk are unhealthy for human consumption for several reasons, most notably because cows are raised in an extremely unhealthy environment by the ranching industry. They’re pumped full of illegal hormones, they are actually fed chicken litter and ground up diseased animals as part of their daily meals, and they are raised on feed that’s typically laced with heavy metals (cadmium and lead) as well as pesticide residues. When you eat beef, you’re eating all this, second-hand style. The cow ate it first, stored it in its tissues, and then you ate it. Many of these chemicals, by the way, tend to concentrate in animal fat tissues, so the juicier your hamburger, the more toxic substances it’s likely to contain.

On the dairy side, cow’s milk and other dairy products and bad for humans for a much simpler reason: cow’s milk is food for baby cows, not for adult human beings. The substance is simply nutritionally imbalanced for humans. It lacks gamma-linolenic acid, it doesn’t have much magnesium, and it is very high in difficult-to-digest proteins, among other problems. Baby cows do very well with it, but human beings don’t.

This study is simply highlighting the results of consuming these unhealthy animal products on a regular basis. And you can bet that lymphatic cancer is just the tip of the iceberg here: the same foods probably also contribute to colon cancer, nerve disorders, irritable bowel syndrome, and cardiovascular disease. It all adds up to yet one more reason to consider avoiding red meat entirely. Even if you don’t go vegetarian, you can replace all your red meat with chicken or turkey (that’s what I do when I feel the need to eat meat). Or, at the very least, greatly limit your consumption of red meat. For dairy products, I highly recommend you try the 30-day “no dairy diet,” meaning that you avoid all dairy products for 30 days and see how you feel. Most people notice a tremendous difference in their energy, their digestion, and they typically see a strong improvement in sinus conditions or asthma. You see, milk tends to aggravate all these problems, and sadly, many people haven’t lived a single day without consuming cow’s milk. Try 30 days, dairy free, and see how you feel. If you feel better, quit milk for good. I wouldn’t touch cow’s milk, personally.

For those of you worried about getting calcium in a dairy-free diet, don’t believe the milk industry hype. There are far better choices for dietary calcium. One cup of cooked quinoa (a supergrain) has more calcium than a cup of milk. A cup of broccoli juice does, too. You can get calcium from coral calcium supplements or from superfoods like chlorella and spirulina. If you’re concerned about not getting enough protein in your diet without red meat, just look to the same foods: quinoa is very high in protein, and it’s a complete protein, too (all eight amino acids). Spirulina has twelve times the digestible protein of beef, ounce per ounce, making it a far superior source of protein than cow flesh. Whey protein, even though derived from dairy, is also a good choice because it is isolated from the other problems typical of dairy products.

Reality check: I’m a strength trainer. I’ve put on maybe 10 pounds of solid muscle mass in the past year without touching a single piece of red meat. I get all my protein from spirulina, quinoa and soy products, with a piece of chicken or seafood from time to time. You don’t need beef to get protein, and you sure don’t need milk to get calcium. And, of course, if you avoid red meat and dairy products, you will also reduce your risk of lymphatic cancer.

Got Heart Disease?

Heart disease is America’s number one killer, taking as many lives as almost everything else combined. Every day, 3,000 Americans suffer from heart attacks, and more than 1,200 of them die. Those who don’t die often suffer another heart attack later. Because we now know what causes heart attacks, we can prevent them.

Since the early 1970s, study after study after study has implicated cow’s milk and other dairy products as a cause of heart disease and clogged arteries. One researcher, Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn from the Cleveland Clinic (the top-rated heart clinic in the U.S.), makes people “heart attack-proof” by putting them on a vegan diet (check out his groundbreaking paper in the American Journal of Cardiology, August 99).

It’s not just the fat and cholesterol in dairy products, but also the animal protein and milk carbohydrates that are linked to heart disease, as the following studies show:

“International statistics indicate that there is a close correlation between the consumption of saturated fats (dairy fats and meat fats) and the mortality from coronary heart disease, and this conception has been confirmed by many epidemiological studies,” concluded a study published in Circulation, a journal of the American Heart Association. “Practically total replacement of dairy fats by vegetable oils in the diets … was followed by a substantial reduction in the mortality of men from coronary heart disease. Total mortality also appeared to be reduced.” ⁽¹⁾

In a study published in the International Journal of Cardiology, researchers studied seven countries with a high consumption of dairy products and found that heart disease mortality rose as milk supply rose. ⁽²⁾

In a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, researchers wrote, “Much evidence suggests that high consumption of full-fat dairy products is likely to increase coronary heart disease risk” and noted that “there are strong reasons to believe that a causal association does exist.” ⁽³⁾

Researchers who studied dietary links to heart disease in 32 countries found that, of all dietary factors studied, milk carbohydrates played the biggest role in the development of heart disease in men over 35, and nonfat milk played the biggest role in the development of coronary heart disease in men over 45. ⁽⁴⁾

Researchers studying 19 Western countries concluded that heart disease mortality rises as consumption of milk protein rises. The researchers noted, “Multiple regression analysis confirmed the importance of the milk factor … as a determinant of variation in ischemic heart disease mortality rates.” ⁽⁵⁾

“Milk consumption is related to arteriosclerosis,” confirmed yet another group of researchers. “Recent landmark studies confirm a previously suspected close correlation between milk intake and arteriosclerotic heart disease.”⁽⁶⁾

A study of food consumption and heart disease in 24 countries concluded, “Direct, linear, and reasonably accurate correlation has been found between coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality rates and the consumption of unfermented milk proteins-namely the protein content of all dairy products with the only important exception of cheese.” ⁽⁷⁾

“It is clear that saturated fats, mainly dairy fats, are closely associated with the mortality rate from ischaemic heart disease,” wrote researchers in the Journal of Internal Medicine. ⁽⁸⁾

In a study published in Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Disease, researchers wrote, “a reduction in meat and dairy products … will decrease other cardiovascular risk factors, particularly cholesterol and glucose intolerance. This healthier diet will reduce cardiovascular disease and is similar to the diet now being advocated for the prevention of some forms of cancer.” They also noted, “Diet is by far the most important environmental factor determining our longevity, and for those who wish to live longer, a change in diet as early in life as possible will have substantial effects.” ⁽⁹⁾

In a study published in The Lancet, researchers comparing heart disease death rates with food intake found that the highest correlation was with milk. “Changes in milk-protein consumption, up or down, accurately predicted changes in coronary deaths four to seven years later.” The researchers noted that their analysis “strongly supports” previous conclusions that milk is the principle dietary culprit in hardened, narrowed arteries and that the problematic portion of milk is its protein, not its fat. ⁽¹⁰⁾

A study published in the European Journal of Epidemiology found that butter and milk consumption had a positive correlation with heart disease. ⁽¹¹⁾

A study that compared coronary death rates with food intakes in 21 countries found that the food most highly correlated with coronary deaths was milk. ⁽¹²⁾

“Both cholesterol and saturated fat in your diet may increase blood levels of cholesterol and increase the formation of plaque (blockages) in your arteries,” says Dr. Dean Ornish of the University of California at San Francisco, who has demonstrated that artery blockages can be reversed with a low-fat vegan diet instead of expensive and invasive surgeries. “[One] might consider switching from nonfat milk to nonfat soy milk, as I have done. This will give you a double benefit: Soy milk has no cholesterol, and soy products may actually lower your blood cholesterol levels.”

The world-renowned health advisor to President Clinton, Dr. John McDougall concurs: “The wisest way to prevent tragedies from a defective blood vessel system is to deal with the cause: Your first-line therapy should be a low-fat, no-cholesterol diet.”

^{1 Osmo Turpeinen, “Effect of Cholesterol-Lowering Diet on Mortality From Coronary Heart Disease and Other Causes,” Circulation, 59, No. 1 (1979), 1-7.}

^{2 J. Segall, “Dietary Lactose as a Possible Risk Factor for Ischaemic Heart Disease: Review of Epidemiology,” International Journal of Cardiology, 46, No. 3 (1994), 197-207.}

^{3 Lawrence Kushi, Elizabeth Lenary, and Walter Willette, “Health Implications of Mediterranean Diets in Light of Contemporary Knowledge: Plant foods and Dairy Products.” American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (suppl.), 61 (1995), 1407S-1415S.
4 William Grant, “Milk and Other Dietary Influences on Coronary Heart Disease,” Alternative Medicine Review, 3, No. 4 (1998), 281-294.}

^{5 R. Popham, W. Schmidt, and Y. Israel, “Variation in Mortality From Ischemic Heart Disease in Relation to Alcohol and Milk Consumption,” Medical Hypotheses, 12, No. 4 (1983), 321-329.}

^{6 P. Rank, “Milk and Arteriosclerosis,” Medical Hypotheses, 20, No. 3 (1986), 317-338.
7 S. Seely, “Diet and Coronary Disease: A Survey of Mortality Rates and Food Consumption Statistics of 24 Countries,” Medical Hypotheses, 7, No. 7 (1981), 907-918.}

^{8 S. Renaud and M. de Lorgeril, “Dietary Lipids and Their Relation to Ischaemic Heart Disease: From Epidemoiology to Prevention,” Journal of Internal Medicine (suppl.), 225, No. 731 (1989), 39-46.}

^{9 G. MacGregor, “Nutrition and Blood Pressure,” Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Disease, 9, No. 4 (1999), 6-15.}

^{10 M. Moss and D.L.J. Freed, “Survival Trends, Coronary Event Rates, and the MONICA Project,” The Lancet 354 (1999): 862.}

^{11 A. Menotti, D. Kromhout, H. Blackburn, F. Fidanza, R. Buzina, and A. Nissinen, “Food Intake Patterns and 25-Year Mortality from Coronary Heart Disease: Cross-Cultural Correlations in the Seven Countries Study,” European Journal of Epidemiology, 15, No. 6 (1999), 507-515.}

^{12 S. Seely, “Diet and Coronary Heart Disease: A Survey of Female Mortality Rates and Food Consumption Statistics of 21 Countries,” Medical Hypotheses, 7, No. 9 (1981), 1133-1137.}

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Cow’s milk is linked to diabetes…

A study of children in 40 countries found that the incidence of juvenile diabetes was directly related to diet: The higher the consumption of cow’s milk and other animal products, the greater the chance of developing diabetes. Conversely, children who consumed a largely vegetarian diet had a much lower incidence of diabetes.

The American Journal of Nutrition Muntoni et al., 71 (2000),1525-9

A study of more than 800 children found that feeding infants cow’s milk formula is “associated with an increased risk of type 1 diabetes …”

Diabetes Care
Hypponen et al., December 1999

In another study of 800 children, researchers found that the “introduction to cow’s milk products before age 8 is a risk factor” for juvenile diabetes and that breast-feeding babies for more than the first week after birth protected infants from developing diabetes.

Diabetes Care
Gimeno et al., August 1997
In 1994, the American Academy of Pediatrics convened a panel to examine the issue, concluding that exposure to cow’s milk protein may indeed be an important factor in the development of diabetes. Based on the more than 90 studies that had addressed the issue, the academy reported that avoiding cow’s milk exposure might delay or prevent the disease in susceptible individuals.

Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics Work Group on Cow’s Milk Protein and Diabetes Mellitus, 1994

“The avoidance of cow’s milk protein for the first several months of life may reduce the later development of IDDM (insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus) in susceptible individuals. … In families with a strong history of IDDM, particularly if a sibling has diabetes, breast-feeding and avoidance of commercially available cow’s milk and products containing intact cow’s milk protein during the first year of life are strongly encouraged.”
–Pediatrics
American Academy of Pediatrics, November 1994

“The National Dairy Board’s slogan, ‘Milk. It does a body good,’ sounds a little hollow these days … [because of] evidence that early exposure to a protein in cow’s milk may sometimes lead to juvenile diabetes.”
–Scientific American
October 1992

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, Diabetes and Diet

Science News, Cows’ Milk, Diabetes Connection Bolstered (diabetes in kids)

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Got Allergies and Mucus?

If your kids suffer from chronic runny noses and sore throats, it might be time to dump the dairy. According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, cow’s milk is the number one-cause of food allergies in children. According to the former director of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Frank Oski, there is evidence to indicate that up to half of U.S. children have some allergic reaction to milk. For these kids (and for adults who are allergic to dairy foods), milk is a mucus maker and can lead to persistent problems such as chronic coughs and sinus infections, asthma, and ear infections.

More and more physicians and dietitians realize that removing dairy products from the diet can be the solution to many childhood illnesses such as runny noses, constipation, colic, ear infections, and gas—and the list goes on.

See for yourself:

According to a report published by the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology Committee on Adverse Reactions to Food (part of the National Institutes of Health), the allergies of up to one third of children tested cleared after milk was removed from their diet.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, author of the world-famous book Baby and Child Care, wrote in 1998, “Cow’s milk is not recommended for a child when he is sick—or when he is well, for that matter. Dairy products may cause more mucus complications and cause more discomfort with upper respiratory infections.”

In their book Allergies to Milk, Drs. Sami L. Bahna and Douglas C. Heiner report that children who are allergic to milk “may have breathing difficulty, particularly during sleep, or an irritating cough associated with a postnasal drip. … The cough is frequently associated with noisy breathing and excessive mucus in the throat, and sometimes parents worry that their child is ‘gagging.’ … Such affected children are frequently diagnosed as having upper respiratory infection, viral illness, bronchitis, … or pneumonia. Accordingly, they may be given unnecessary medications, including cough syrups, decongestants, or antibiotics. Relief, however, is not satisfactory until cow’s milk is eliminated from the diet.”

A 1997 report on food allergies in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that cow’s milk allergies tend to hit children in their infancies. Recommended therapies for food allergies include “strict removal of the offending allergen” or possibly a diet centered on human breast milk.

A British study found that 93 percent of children diagnosed with cow’s milk allergy experienced asthma and/or rhinitis when milk was included in their diet. (The book Asthma and Rhinitis states that rhinitis is “characterized by itching, sneezing, nasal blockage, and discharge.”)

Frank Oski, M.D., the former director of the Department of Pediatrics of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and physician-in-chief of the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, said in his 1992 book, “The fact is: The drinking of cow milk has been linked to iron-deficiency anemia in infants and children; it has been named as the cause of cramps and diarrhea in much of the world’s population, and the cause of multiple forms of allergy as well.”

In his book Pregnancy, Children, and the Vegan Diet, Dr. Michael Klaper explains why milk may trigger the production of mucus: “[W]hen the protein of another animal is introduced into one’s immune system, an allergic/immune response is created in many places in the body. A common reaction to such an assault by a foreign protein in our immune system is an outpouring of mucus from the nasal and throat membranes. … The resulting mucus flow can create the chronic runny noses, persistent sore throats, hoarseness, bronchitis, and the recurrent ear infections that plague so many children (and their parents).”

According to the metastudy Milk Allergies, “Cow’s milk allergy, mainly a disease of infancy, is usually manifested within the first two or three months of life. … No age, however, is exempt, and milk allergy may be first detected during adolescence or adulthood.”

Dr. Christiane Northrup states: “Dairy is a tremendous mucus producer and a burden on the respiratory, digestive, and immune systems.” Dr. Northrup says that patients who “eliminate dairy products for an extended period and eat a balanced diet … suffer less from colds and sinus infections.”

The mucus created by milk may cause other health problems, as well. Dr. William Ellis, who has studied the effects of dairy foods for more than four decades, says that milk is “simply no good for humans.” Dr. Ellis believes that the excess mucus caused by milk can harden to form a coating on the inner wall of the intestines, hindering the absorption of nutrients and possibly leading to chronic fatigue.

According to an article in the June 26, 2003, Calgary Herald, milk is the most common source of allergies in children. Sharon Tateishi, a Calgary, Alberta, nutritionist for more than 20 years, comments, “There are so many articles coming up. You can’t ignore the issue any more. If a child has food sensitivities to milk, the symptoms can include eczema, bloating, runny nose, chronic ear infections, stomach problems. It could be asthma. Even things like kidney and bladder problems.”

Unless you like phlegm in your throat and a constant runny nose, it might be time to try soy.

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What Nourishes Me Also Destroys Me, Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie

“Quod me nutrit me destruit.”

Those words are tatooed on the tummy of Jon Voight’s little girl, Angelina Jolie.

The Japanese symbol for “death” has been tattooed on Angelina’s shoulder.

Could it be that Angelina is foolhardy enough to fulfill her tattooed destiny by drinking milk? She’s the new darling of the dairy industry, and sports a white mustache in the latest dairy ad:

Very sexy photo, Angelina, but wait! Could this be the good news that cow’s milk bashers have been waiting for?

Entertaindom.com reports that Angelina has changed her diet and is feeling the benefits during the shooting of Lara Croft.

Jolie says,

“I have no sugar now, and I switched to soy milk.”

Hooray for Angelina! She’s wearing America’s first soystache, paid for by the cheese producers and dairy farmers of America.

Thanks, guys.

Robert Cohen, author of:

MILK A-Z

(201-871-5871) Executive Director (notmilkman@notmilk.com)

Dairy Education Board http://www.notmilk.com

WELL, AT LEAST COW’S MILK IS PURE?

Or is it? Fifty years ago an average cow produced 2,000 pounds of milk per year. Today the top producers give 50,000 pounds! How was this accomplished? Drugs, antibiotics, hormones, forced feeding plans and specialized breeding; that’s how.

IS ALL MILK THE SAME?

Then there is the matter of where we get our milk. We have settled on the cow because of its docile nature, its size, and its abundant milk supply. Somehow this choice seems ‘normal’ and blessed by nature, our culture, and our customs. But is it natural? Is it wise to drink the milk of another species of mammal?

Consider for a moment, if it was possible, to drink the milk of a mammal other than a cow, let’s say a rat. Or perhaps the milk of a dog would be more to your liking. Possibly some horse milk or cat milk. Do you get the idea? Well, I’m not serious about this, except to suggest that human milk is for human infants, dogs’ milk is for pups, cows’ milk is for calves, cats’ milk is for kittens, and so forth. Clearly, this is the way nature intends it. Just use your own good judgement on this one.

Milk is not just milk. The milk of every species of mammal is unique and specifically tailored to the requirements of that animal. For example, cows’ milk is very much richer in protein than human milk. Three to four times as much. It has five to seven times the mineral content. However, it is markedly deficient in essential fatty acids when compared to human mothers’ milk. Mothers’ milk has six to ten times as much of the essential fatty acids, especially linoleic acid. (Incidentally, skimmed cow’s milk has no linoleic acid). It simply is not designed for humans.

Food is not just food, and milk is not just milk. It is not only the proper amount of food but the proper qualitative composition that is critical for the very best in health and growth. Biochemists and physiologists -and rarely medical doctors – are gradually learning that foods contain the crucial elements that allow a particular species to develop its unique specializations.

Clearly, our specialization is for advanced neurological development and delicate neuromuscular control. We do not have much need of massive skeletal growth or huge muscle groups as does a calf. Think of the difference between the demands make on the human hand and the demands on a cow’s hoof. Human new-borns specifically need critical material for their brains, spinal cord and nerves.

Can mother’s milk increase intelligence? It seems that it can. In a remarkable study published in Lancet during 1992 (Vol. 339, p. 261-4), a group of British workers randomly placed premature infants into two groups. One group received a proper formula, the other group received human breast milk. Both fluids were given by stomach tube. These children were followed up for over 10 years. In intelligence testing, the human milk children averaged 10 IQ points higher! Well, why not? Why wouldn’t the correct building blocks for the rapidly maturing and growing brain have a positive effect?

In the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (1982) Ralph Holman described an infant who developed profound neurological disease while being nourished by intravenous fluids only. The fluids used contained only linoleic acid – just one of the essential fatty acids. When the other, alpha linoleic acid, was added to the intravenous fluids the neurological disorders cleared.

In the same journal five years later Bjerve, Mostad and Thoresen, working in Norway found exactly the same problem in adult patients on long term gastric tube feeding.

In 1930 Dr. G.O. Burr in Minnesota working with rats found that linoleic acid deficiencies created a deficiency syndrome. Why is this mentioned? In the early 1960s pediatricians found skin lesions in children fed formulas without the same linoleic acid. Remembering the research, the addition of the acid to the formula cured the problem. Essential fatty acids are just that and cows’ milk is markedly deficient in these when compared to human milk.

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THE MILK LETTER : A MESSAGE TO MY PATIENTS Robert M. Kradjian, MD

Breast Surgery Chief Division of General Surgery,
Seton Medical Centre #302 – 1800 Sullivan Ave.
Daly City, CA 94015 USA

“MILK” Just the word itself sounds comforting! “How about a nice cup of hot milk?” The last time you heard that question it was from someone who cared for you–and you appreciated their effort.

The entire matter of food and especially that of milk is surrounded with emotional and cultural importance. Milk was our very first food. If we were fortunate it was our mother’s milk. A loving link, given and taken. It was the only path to survival. If not mother’s milk it was cow’s milk or soy milk “formula”–rarely it was goat, camel or water buffalo milk.

Now, we are a nation of milk drinkers. Nearly all of us. Infants, the young, adolescents, adults and even the aged. We drink dozens or even several hundred gallons a year and add to that many pounds of “dairy products” such as cheese, butter, and yogurt.

Can there be anything wrong with this? We see reassuring images of healthy, beautiful people on our television screens and hear messages that assure us that, “Milk is good for your body.” Our dieticians insist that: “You’ve got to have milk, or where will you get your calcium?” School lunches always include milk and nearly every hospital meal will have milk added. And if that isn’t enough, our nutritionists told us for years that dairy products make up an “essential food group.” Industry spokesmen made sure that colourful charts proclaiming the necessity of milk and other essential nutrients were made available at no cost for schools. Cow’s milk became “normal.”

You may be surprised to learn that most of the human beings that live on planet Earth today do not drink or use cow’s milk. Further, most of them can’t drink milk because it makes them ill.

There are students of human nutrition who are not supportive of milk use for adults. Here is a quotation from the March/April 1991 Utne Reader:

If you really want to play it safe, you may decide to join the growing number of Americans who are eliminating dairy products from their diets altogether. Although this sounds radical to those of us weaned on milk and the five basic food groups, it is eminently viable. Indeed, of all the mammals, only humans–and then only a minority, principally Caucasians–continue to drink milk beyond babyhood.

Who is right? Why the confusion? Where best to get our answers? Can we trust milk industry spokesmen? Can you trust any industry spokesmen? Are nutritionists up to date or are they simply repeating what their professors learned years ago? What about the new voices urging caution?

I believe that there are three reliable sources of information. The first, and probably the best, is a study of nature. The second is to study the history of our own species. Finally we need to look at the world’s scientific literature on the subject of milk.

Let’s look at the scientific literature first. From 1988 to 1993 there were over 2,700 articles dealing with milk recorded in the ‘Medicine’ archives. Fifteen hundred of theses had milk as the main focus of the article. There is no lack of scientific information on this subject. I reviewed over 500 of the 1,500 articles, discarding articles that dealt exclusively with animals, esoteric research and inconclusive studies.

How would I summarize the articles? They were only slightly less than horrifying. First of all, none of the authors spoke of cow’s milk as an excellent food, free of side effects and the ‘perfect food’ as we have been led to believe by the industry. The main focus of the published reports seems to be on intestinal colic, intestinal irritation, intestinal bleeding, anemia, allergic reactions in infants and children as well as infections such as salmonella. More ominous is the fear of viral infection with bovine leukemia virus or an AIDS-like virus as well as concern for childhood diabetes. Contamination of milk by blood and white (pus) cells as well as a variety of
chemicals and insecticides was also discussed.  Among children the problems were allergy, ear and tonsillar infections, bedwetting, asthma, intestinal bleeding, colic and childhood diabetes. In adults the problems seemed centered more around heart disease and arthritis, allergy,
sinusitis, and the more serious questions of leukemia, lymphoma and cancer.

I think that an answer can also be found in a consideration of what occurs in nature & what happens with free living mammals and what happens with human groups living in close
to a natural state as ‘hunter-gatherers’.

Our paleolithic ancestors are another crucial and interesting group to study. Here we are limited to speculation and indirect evidences, but the bony remains available for our study are remarkable. There is no doubt whatever that these skeletal remains reflect great strength,
muscularity (the size of the muscular insertions show this), and total absence of advanced osteoporosis. And if you feel that these people are not important for us to study,
consider that today our genes are programming our bodies in almost exactly the same way as our ancestors of 50,000 to 100,000 years ago.

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Bovine Growth Hormone, Genetic Engineering & the New World Order

Mitchel Cohen Write In Candidate for Mayor of NYC, Green Party 13aug01

Monsanto to School Kids: Have a Nice Big Glass of Pus. On Us.

Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone is a genetically engineered drug injected into cows, which increases the levels of cancer causing and other dangerous chemicals in milk. Its manufacturer, the Monsanto Corporation, also manufactured the deadly Agent Orange.

Does pasteurized milk really do the body good?

During the 1930’s, Dr. Francis M. Pottenger conducted a 10-year study on the relative effects of pasteurized and raw milk diets on 900 cats. One group received nothing but raw whole milk, while the other was fed nothing but pasteurized whole milk from the same source. The raw milk group thrived, remaining healthy, active and alert throughout their lives, but the group fed on pasteurized milk soon became listless, confused and highly vulnerable to a host of chronic degenerative ailments normally associated with humans, including heart disease, kidney failure, thyroid dysfunction, respiratory ailments, loss of teeth, brittle bones, liver inflammation, etc. But what caught Dr. Pottenger’s attention most was what happened to the second and third generations… more on A Study in Nutrition by Dr. Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., MD

Milk The Deadly Poison

Milk and dairy products: Once upon a time, milk was teeming with life forces. Today, supermarket milk is a brew of hormones, chemicals, DDT, fungicides, defoliants and radioactive fallout, produced by artificially inseminated creatures forced to stand around in muddy feed lots all day long. RAW organic milk does the body good

WHAT IS MILK?

Milk is a maternal lactating secretion, a short term nutrient for new-borns. Nothing more, nothing less. Invariably, the mother of any mammal will provide her milk for a short period of time immediately after birth. When the time comes for ‘weaning’, the young offspring is introduced to the proper food for that species of mammal. A familiar example is that of a puppy. The mother nurses the pup for just a few weeks and then rejects the young animal and teaches it to eat solid food. Nursing is provided by nature only for the very youngest of mammals. Of course, it is not possible for animals living in a natural state to continue with the drinking of milk after weaning.

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Genetically engineered Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH/BST) in your milk

Both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Consumer’s Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, have warned of the potential hazards to human health caused by consuming products derived from rBGH-treated cows.

Why is BGH is banned in Europe and Canada? Mad Cows Disesase Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)

What is rBGH?
Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone is a genetically engineered copy of a naturally occurring hormone produced by cows. Manufactured by Monsanto Company, the drug is sold to dairy farmers under the name POSILAC, though you’ll also find it called BGH, rBGH, BST and rBST. When rBGH gets injected into dairy cows, milk production increases by as much as 10-15%. The use of rBGH on dairy cows was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in late 1993 and has been in use since 1994. Bovine Growth Hormone in Milk – Whistle Blowers Expose the Truth

Genetically engineered Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH)
Both the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Consumer’s Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, have warned of the potential hazards to human health caused by consuming products derived from rBGH-treated cows.

WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN FIRST GRADE?

WHAT DID YOU LEARN IN FIRST GRADE?

In first grade, I learned:

To stand in line and not cut in.
To raise my hand if I had something to say.
To not interrupt when a teacher was talking.
To print the letters of the alphabet.
The names of the 50 United States.
Vitamin D is the “sunshine vitamin.”

Most people learn most of their lessons well, but the final and most important lesson is forgotten by most.

VITAMIN D-EFICIENCY

How soon we forget! Children are taught in first grade that Vitamin D is the “sunshine vitamin.” Vitamin D is a steroid hormone and is synthesized in one’s body after skin is exposed to sunlight. Once the body has made enough, it will produce no more. Too much Vitamin D can be toxic and lead to bone loss.

“Exposure to sunlight provides most humans with their vitamin D requirement.”

Journal of Nutrition 1996;126(4 Suppl)

“Adults need 10-15 minutes of sunlight, two or three times a week to ensure proper Vitamin D levels.”

Journal of Pediatrics, 1985; 107 (3)

“Consuming as little as 45 micrograms of Vitamin D-3 in young children has resulted in signs of overdose.” (one quart of milk contains 400 IU, or 10 micrograms).”

Pediatrics, 1963; 31

“Testing of 42 milk samples found only 12% within the expected range of Vitamin D content. Testing of 10 samples of infant formula revealed seven with more that twice the Vitamin D content reported on the label, one of which had more than four times the label amount. Vitamin D is toxic in overdose.”

New England Journal of Medicine, 1992, 326

“Vitamin D increases aluminum absorption, and high aluminum levels in the body may cause an Alzheimer’s-like disease.”

Canadian Medical Association Journal 1992 147(9)

“Eighteen breast milk and 17 formula-fed infants, ages 2 to 5 months were studied. The serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (Vitamin D) level was significantly lower in breast milk- than formula-fed infants but bone mineral content was not different. This demonstrates adequate mineral absorption occurs from a predominantly vitamin D-free transport mechanism.”

Journal of Pediatrics, 1998 Apr, 132:4

“To investigate whether greater intakes of calcium, vitamin D, or milk products may protect against ischemic heart disease mortality, data from a prospective cohort study of 34,486 postmenopausal Iowa women were analyzed… results suggest that a higher intake of calcium, but not of vitamin D or milk products, is associated with reduced ischemic heart disease mortality in postmenopausal women.”

Am J Epidemiol, 1999 Jan, 149:2

“It has since been discovered that the Vitamin D necessary to absorb the calcium moving down the intestine must already have been in the bloodstream for a while; what is present with that calcium (in milk) is useless at that stage. Vitamin D is part of the mechanism to break bone down so that it can then stretch and grow. Thus an overdose of D can eventually lead to osteoporosis.”

Vegetarian and Vegan Nutrition, by George Eisman, M.A., M.Sc., R.D.

How soon we forget! Children are taught in first grade that Vitamin D is the “sunshine vitamin.” Vitamin D is a steroid hormone and is synthesized in one’s body after skin is exposed to sunlight. Once the body has made enough, it will produce no more. Too much Vitamin D can be toxic and lead to bone loss.

Source: http://www.notmilk.com/v.html

Vitamin B-12

Many of you believe that Vitamin B-12 supplements are critical to the health of vegans. I believe this to be pure nonsense.

In 1996, Victor Herbert determined that B-12 deficiency is rare among vegans, even though most do not take supplemental B-12. His landmark work was published in the American
Journal of Clinical Nutrition, vol. 59(suppl), pp. 1213S-1222S. Herbert wrote:

“To a great extent, B-12 is recycled from liver bile in the digestive system…The enterohepatic circulation of vitamin B-12 is very important in vitamin B-12 economy and
homeostasis…bodies reabsorb 3-5 mcg of bile vitamin B-12. Because of this, an efficient enterohepatic circulation keeps the adult vegan, who eats very little vitamin B-12,
from developing B-12 deficiency disease…”

Despite real science, the B-12 myth continues. If you feel that you must eat B-12 (which is produced by bacterial action), then buy organic carrots and be sure to eat the
unwashed roots. Washing will kill the bacteria, rich with Vitamin B-12.

Source: http://www.notmilk.com/vitaminb12.html