Do You Drink Milk ?
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41 votes
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Problem
The path that transforms healthy milk products into allergens and
carcinogens begins with modern feeding methods that substitute high-protein,
soy-based feeds for fresh green grass and breeding methods to produce cows
with abnormally large pituitary glands so that they produce three times more
milk than the old fashioned scrub cow. These cows need antibiotics to keep
them well.
Their milk is then pasteurized so that all valuable enzymes are destroyed
(lactase for the assimilation of lactose; galactase for the assimilation of
galactose; phosphatase for the assimilation of calcium).
Literally dozens of other precious enzymes are destroyed in the
pasteurization process. Without them, milk is very difficult to digest. The
human pancreas is not always able to produce these enzymes; over-stress of
the pancreas can lead to diabetes and other diseases.
The butterfat of commercial milk is homogenized, subjecting it to
rancidity. Even worse, butterfat may be removed altogether. Skim milk is
sold as a health food, but the truth is that butter-fat is in milk for a
reason.
Without it the body cannot absorb and utilize the vitamins and minerals
in the water fraction of the milk. Along with valuable trace minerals and
short chain fatty acids, butterfat is America's best source of preformed
vitamin A.
Synthetic vitamin D, known to be toxic to the liver, is added to replace
the natural vitamin D complex in butterfat. Butterfat also contains
re-arranged acids which have strong anti-carcinogenic properties.
Non-fat dried milk is added to 1% and 2% milk. Unlike the cholesterol in
fresh milk, which plays a variety of health promoting roles, the cholesterol
in non-fat dried milk is oxidized and it is this rancid cholesterol that
promotes heart disease.
Like all spray dried products, non-fat dried milk has a high nitrite
content. Non-fat dried milk and sweetened condensed milk are the principle
dairy products in third world countries; use of ultra high temperature
pasteurized milk is widespread in Europe.
Much more at the link provided.
Processing Is the
Problem
The path that transforms healthy milk products into allergens and
carcinogens begins with modern feeding methods that substitute high-protein,
soy-based feeds for fresh green grass and breeding methods to produce cows
with abnormally large pituitary glands so that they produce three times more
milk than the old fashioned scrub cow. These cows need antibiotics to keep
them well.
Their milk is then pasteurized so that all valuable enzymes are destroyed
(lactase for the assimilation of lactose; galactase for the assimilation of
galactose; phosphatase for the assimilation of calcium).
Literally dozens of other precious enzymes are destroyed in the
pasteurization process. Without them, milk is very difficult to digest. The
human pancreas is not always able to produce these enzymes; over-stress of
the pancreas can lead to diabetes and other diseases.
The butterfat of commercial milk is homogenized, subjecting it to
rancidity. Even worse, butterfat may be removed altogether. Skim milk is
sold as a health food, but the truth is that butter-fat is in milk for a
reason.
Without it the body cannot absorb and utilize the vitamins and minerals
in the water fraction of the milk. Along with valuable trace minerals and
short chain fatty acids, butterfat is America's best source of preformed
vitamin A.
Synthetic vitamin D, known to be toxic to the liver, is added to replace
the natural vitamin D complex in butterfat. Butterfat also contains
re-arranged acids which have strong anti-carcinogenic properties.
Non-fat dried milk is added to 1% and 2% milk. Unlike the cholesterol in
fresh milk, which plays a variety of health promoting roles, the cholesterol
in non-fat dried milk is oxidized and it is this rancid cholesterol that
promotes heart disease.
Like all spray dried products, non-fat dried milk has a high nitrite
content. Non-fat dried milk and sweetened condensed milk are the principle
dairy products in third world countries; use of ultra high temperature
pasteurized milk is widespread in Europe.
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Top Opinion
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Temlakos~POTL~PWCM~JLA~☆ 2012/06/15 18:06:26I Like Milk !
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Child care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock, 89, once an advocate of drinking cow’s milk, has joined several doctors in questioning its nutritional value and warning of a possible link to juvenile onset diabetes and allergies. “Breast feeding is the best milk feeding for babies,” Dr. Spock.
Dr. Spock was backed up by Dr. Frank Oski, director of pediatrics at John Hopkins University and Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the 2000 member Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine. At a news conference on Sep. 28, 1992, Dr. Oski stated that cow’s milk is overrated as a source of calcium, is often contaminated with traces of antibiotics, can cause allergies and digestive problems and has been linked to juvenile diabetes.
Health problems associated with cow’s milk are perhaps not so surprising if one considers that human beings are the only species to drink the milk of another species, and the only species to drink milk beyond infancy. Whole cow’s milk is suited to the nutritional needs of calves that double their weight in 47 days and grow to 300 pounds within a year. Cow’s milk contains about three times as much protein as human milk,...
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Child care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock, 89, once an advocate of drinking cow’s milk, has joined several doctors in questioning its nutritional value and warning of a possible link to juvenile onset diabetes and allergies. “Breast feeding is the best milk feeding for babies,” Dr. Spock.
Dr. Spock was backed up by Dr. Frank Oski, director of pediatrics at John Hopkins University and Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the 2000 member Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine. At a news conference on Sep. 28, 1992, Dr. Oski stated that cow’s milk is overrated as a source of calcium, is often contaminated with traces of antibiotics, can cause allergies and digestive problems and has been linked to juvenile diabetes.
Health problems associated with cow’s milk are perhaps not so surprising if one considers that human beings are the only species to drink the milk of another species, and the only species to drink milk beyond infancy. Whole cow’s milk is suited to the nutritional needs of calves that double their weight in 47 days and grow to 300 pounds within a year. Cow’s milk contains about three times as much protein as human milk, and almost 50% more fat.
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a milk ordinance governing milk safety. USDA does not allow milk containing 750 million or more pus cells per liter to be shipped across state borders. That should be good news to milk drinkers.
Last year, the average liter of milk in America contained only 323 million pus cells, according to Hoard's Dairyman, the dairy industry magazine. Author Jim Dickrell reports that the level of pus cells has been rising ever since farmers began using Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone. Before approval (February 1994), the average pus cell count in milk was under 300 million cells per liter. By 1996, that average count had reached 307 million. In 1997, the average count was 313 million, and by 1998, the number had reached 318 million.
http://notmilk.com/
I do not believe that the problem is that we drink the milk of other species. The problem is that we drink milk as adults. It is normal in the animal kingdom for the lactase enzyme to shut off after milk drinking ceases and regular food is eaten, and we are the only ones who continue to consume milk after infancy. Many of us have adapted to this and continue to produce lactase. Many of us have the more "normal" physiology and don't.
Obviously breast milk is best for feeding human babies. Yes of course each species milk is going to have a somewhat different composition, and many babies cannot tolerate cow milk, which is why one can buy goats milk, soy formula, and the other varieties of human milk substitutes that are available. Not all women can or wish to breastfeed.
Your references for linking cows milk to various health problems are quite old. I do not believe current medical thinking supports these views.
With respect to the amount of fat in cows milk, that varies from breed to bree...
I do not believe that the problem is that we drink the milk of other species. The problem is that we drink milk as adults. It is normal in the animal kingdom for the lactase enzyme to shut off after milk drinking ceases and regular food is eaten, and we are the only ones who continue to consume milk after infancy. Many of us have adapted to this and continue to produce lactase. Many of us have the more "normal" physiology and don't.
Obviously breast milk is best for feeding human babies. Yes of course each species milk is going to have a somewhat different composition, and many babies cannot tolerate cow milk, which is why one can buy goats milk, soy formula, and the other varieties of human milk substitutes that are available. Not all women can or wish to breastfeed.
Your references for linking cows milk to various health problems are quite old. I do not believe current medical thinking supports these views.
With respect to the amount of fat in cows milk, that varies from breed to breed, and also varies with feed. Furthermore, dairies are paid by the fat content of their milk. More fat = more money. And by the time the milk reaches the store, the fat content has been regulated to between 0 and 4% depending on what kind of milk you choose to buy, so the original fat content of the milk is actually irrelevant. Protein content of cows milk also varies with how the animal is feed, and does vary somewhat by breed. I really don't see the problem with using milk as a protein source for a lactose tolerant person. Some babies can't handle it - there are alternatives. Some people get allergies - it is possible to develop an allergy to any food - or for that matter to virtually any thing.
I love the inflammatory language. Pus cells. Hah! Sounds like something PETA would put out. What you are talking about are white blood cells, and they are utterly harmless. Here's something I bet you didn't know. Women get mastitis too. Yes, that's right - women can have (oooooo) pus cells in their breast milk. Want to know what they are supposed to do? Keep right on breast feeding. Don't believe me? Here's a reference: http://www.webmd.com/parentin...
I had a daughter who, as an infant, turned into a cottage cheese factory, whenever she drank milk. We had to switch her to ProSoBee, (soy formula).
I had several relatives who worked in and even owned small dairies, until they were legislated out of business. Fifty years ago, they supplied the milk to the school that I went to with milk. That school was always over 800 children and during my eight years there, I only remember one girl, named Margaret, who had to have goat's milk instead of cow's milk. My primary complaint is not with the milk itself, but with the factory farms, corporate mega-dairies, and supermarkets produce, process, and distribute it.
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Initial studies using lactose hydrogen breath tests documented lactose malabsorption in up to 40% of children and adolescents presenting with abdominal pain.32 However, recent studies suggest that the prevalence of abdominal symptoms related to lactose intolerance documented by hydrogen breath tests is variable and ranges from 2% in Finnish children to 24% in southern US children.33,34
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What's really horrifying is what goes on in meat processing plants. There is a ton of pressure to not stop the line unless you actually see fibrous material (as opposed to merely smears of liquid material) on the meat. Or something like that - I think I've got it right but I'm going from memory here. It's appalling. It definitely makes me want to have some land or at least a big freezer, buy my cows at the local 4H auction and have them slaughtered at a local, small, preferably family owned or perhaps kosher slau...
What's really horrifying is what goes on in meat processing plants. There is a ton of pressure to not stop the line unless you actually see fibrous material (as opposed to merely smears of liquid material) on the meat. Or something like that - I think I've got it right but I'm going from memory here. It's appalling. It definitely makes me want to have some land or at least a big freezer, buy my cows at the local 4H auction and have them slaughtered at a local, small, preferably family owned or perhaps kosher slaughterhouse. I used to do that.
Back to drinking milk, It is true that during an acute illness, one can temporarily lose one's lactase production, which may account for the artificially high finding of 40% lactose intolerance among children with abdominal pain.
In a clinical settingI think the best approach is to just see if the symptoms go away when you stop drinking milk. Lactose is going to be found in any sort of animal milk, so if you can switch from one milk to another it's the proteins or perhaps the fat composition that you are having a problem with. And of course, whether or not you switch off your lactase is going to be genetically determined, so I would expect to see geographic differences in lactose intolerance.
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thanks milk
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has a milk ordinance governing milk safety. USDA does not allow milk containing 750 million or more pus cells per liter to be shipped across state borders. That should be good news to milk drinkers.
Last year, the average liter of milk in America contained only 323 million pus cells, according to Hoard's Dairyman, the dairy industry magazine. Author Jim Dickrell reports that the level of pus cells has been rising ever since farmers began using Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone. Before approval (February 1994), the average pus cell count in milk was under 300 million cells per liter. By 1996, that average count had reached 307 million. In 1997, the average count was 313 million, and by 1998, the number had reached 318 million.
http://notmilk.com/