MUGGED by MILK
cow’s milk. Every few hours, Dr. Greger points out, “another child in this country is diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and may be condemned to a life of chronic suffering.”
As for the milk causing all this mayhem, his prescription is simple: “The consumer movement needs to move it to the front burner and turn up the heat.”
JUST SAY YUK
“Don’t drink your milk,” urges Dr. Joseph Mercola. “Milk and refined sugar make two of the largest contributions to food- induced ill health in our country.” [mercola.com/artcle/milk/no_milk./htm]
Specifically, moo juice has been shown to cause in diarrhea, cramps, bloating, gas, gastrointestinal bleeding, iron-deficiency anemia, skin rashes, arteriosclerosis, and acne. The journal Pediatrics has also found, “Babies who are fed whole cow’s milk during the second six months of life may experience a 30% increase in intestinal blood loss and a significant loss of iron.”
HOW DICK AND JANE GOT SICK
In September 2004, DairyMAX hailed GW Bush’s “Child Nutrition Reauthorization Act”, which prohibits schools from restricting sales of milk products at any time on school premises or at school-sponsored events.
The National Dairy Council, which is funded by dairy producers, “provided information on milk’s nutritional importance to America’s children and youth,” DairyMAX reported. Their lobbying was so powerful, “Congress rejected an aggressive effort by soy interests to make their beverages fully substitutable for milk in school meal programs.”
U.S. schools are now required to adopt “wellness policies” – in part by providing flavored milk and cheese through vending machines laden with antibiotics, ParaTB, Bovine Growth Hormone and Crohn’s disease.
Aggressively pushed by the NFL and Wendy’s food chains – and widely promoted by celebrities and “healthy living” websites – milk drinking is also linked to insulin-dependent diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, infertility, and leukemia. [dairymax.org; notmilk.com]
Meanwhile, Dick and Jane have succumbed to the modern plague of asthma. “Cow’s milk is the number one allergic food in this country,” Dr. Mercola maintains. “Cow’s milk allergy is one of the most common food allergies in young infants,” agrees the September-October 1995 issue of W V Medical Journal.
Anemia is another legacy of milk. Robert Cohen reports that after more than 150,000 Vietnamese relocated in Australia, for the first time in their lives nearly every child became afflicted with asthma, diabetes, earaches and iron-deficient anemia. Though sugar and beef were strongly implicated, the primary assailant was cow’s milk. Daily drinking 650 milliliters of milk is a “risk factor for iron deficiency,” according to another pediatric journal. [Pediatrics 1982, 1989; Journal of Pediatric Child Health Aug/04]
STOP EAR INFECTIONS NOW
Dr. Mercola adds that milk is “the primary cause of recurrent ear infections in children.” The ,000 surgery that inserts tubes into the eardrums of infants to treat recurrent ear infections is now the leading surgical procedure in the USA. “Most children who have this procedure will suffer long term hearing losses,” Dr. Mercola says. “Over 50% of these children will improve and have no further ear infections if they just stop drinking their milk.”
Like Big Tobacco, the Big Dairy Board spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year convincing Americans we will drop dead if we do not keep suckling like calves on a manufactured product our bodies cannot digest that makes many of us so chronically ill we think our constant aches and exhaustion are normal. The propaganda has worked so well, many adults believe they need to consume daily hits of milk to “stay healthy” and keep their bones from snapping like dried pretzels.
“NOTHING could be further from the truth!” Cohen shouts. He’s right. If your fondest desire is to remove lots of calcium from your body, drink lots of milk. The high levels of phosphorous in each glass prevent your body from absorbing the calcium in the milk. And since milk does not contains comparable amounts of magnesium needed to utilize calcium, milk drinkers are twice out of luck.
Even worse, the unfamiliar protein in cow’s milk leaches calcium from the bones you thought you were protecting by drinking all that milk. All that unusable cow calcium builds up on arterial walls, choking the blood supply to your heart and brain. It also contributes to arthritis, and can even be converted into kidney stones.
So if you are a post-menopausal woman determined to experience Osteoporosis, drink milk. Its unusable protein will draw the calcium right out of your bones. We’re talking amounts massive enough “to trigger a 50% loss of calcium in the urine,” Cohen has found.
One option is to take properly