The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk

[aronia]

Book Review: WHITEWASH: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk & Your Health

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Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D. | 12/14/10


WHITEWASH: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk & Your Health
By Joseph Keon, Ph.D.
Reviewed by Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D

If you or anyone you care about still consumes dairy products, the information in this book can be life saving. Why? Well, it takes nearly 300 pages, including the scientific studies that back up Dr. Keon's statements, to cover the data that support the contentions that dairy is dangerous to human health!

Just scanning the Table of Contents, you get the idea that milk-lovers might be in for a rough ride. For example, how about diarrhea, anemia, arthritis, migraines, asthma, breast, prostate and ovarian cancers, SIDS, Type 1 diabetes, osteoporosis, and maybe the not-so-fatal but extremely annoying gas, bloating, eczema, runny nose, acne, fatigue, constipation, growth retardation, psychological disturbances, and/or lowered IQ.

Behind each of these, you'll get the science supporting these findings. The data is there - we just have to find a way to get this information out to people - both the lay public but especially to doctors and R.D.s who continue to promote this very unhealthy product and who've been brain-washed and "whitewashed"!

Contrary to what we've been told since childhood, the scientific
literature does not support the claim, for example, that cow's milk protects human bones from fracture. Americans are major milk consumers and carry a high risk for bone fractures. The positive relationship between milk drinking and an elevated risk of bone fracture is consistent, worldwide.

There are over 70 foods from the plant kingdom that provide not only
calcium, but also are packaged with the many other nutrients essential to
bone health. These foods are free of the cholesterol, lactose, the hormones
and growth factors, and the antibiotic residues found in cow's milk.

Milk drinking is also associated with an elevated risk for a variety of
serious illnesses, including prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, and,
surprisingly, even autism. It may also increase risk of developing Crohn's
disease and Parkinson's disease.

Cow's milk is perhaps the most contaminated food one can consume. The
FDA's own and other data consistently show milk and other dairy products
contain residues of pesticides, herbicides, and industrial chemicals such
as the carcinogen, dioxin. The most recent addition to this list of
contaminants is perchlorate, the explosive ingredient in rocket fuel.

Because milk's calcium is poorly absorbed (humans only absorb about 32% of the calcium in a glass of milk), its sodium, phosphorus, and protein content are
too high, (yes, too much protein!) and every glass exposes us to nearly sixty different hormones and growth factors. Dairy products contain nearly 30 different proteins to which one may have an allergic reaction, and studies show an elevated risk for ovarian cancer and prostate cancer in milk drinkers. Milk is clearly not well suited for human consumption.

Even if people know better than to drink cow's milk, they often consume yogurt or cheese, thinking these are healthy alternatives. Dr. Keon describes the addictive properties contained in dairy, demonstrating why it's so hard for some people to give it up.

How's this for scary information that ought to demonstrate the ills of dairy? If that's not enough, Dr. Keon brings in a broader perspective such as including environmental factors associated with milk production. You need this book, not just to read, but to re-read, and keep for the constant references you'll need as you try to educate others as to how they've been "whitewashed"!

Get your copy of WhiteWash from Amazon.com, click here.



Ruth Heidrich PhD is an Ironman Triathlete and author of A Race for Life, CHEF and Senior Fitness.[/QUOTE]





Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D. | 12/14/10


WHITEWASH: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk & Your Health
By Joseph Keon, Ph.D.
Reviewed by Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D

If you or anyone you care about still consumes dairy products, the information in this book can be life saving. Why? Well, it takes nearly 300 pages, including the scientific studies that back up Dr. Keon's statements, to cover the data that support the contentions that dairy is dangerous to human health!

Just scanning the Table of Contents, you get the idea that milk-lovers might be in for a rough ride. For example, how about diarrhea, anemia, arthritis, migraines, asthma, breast, prostate and ovarian cancers, SIDS, Type 1 diabetes, osteoporosis, and maybe the not-so-fatal but extremely annoying gas, bloating, eczema, runny nose, acne, fatigue, constipation, growth retardation, psychological disturbances, and/or lowered IQ.

Behind each of these, you'll get the science supporting these findings. The data is there - we just have to find a way to get this information out to people - both the lay public but especially to doctors and R.D.s who continue to promote this very unhealthy product and who've been brain-washed and "whitewashed"!

Contrary to what we've been told since childhood, the scientific
literature does not support the claim, for example, that cow's milk protects human bones from fracture. Americans are major milk consumers and carry a high risk for bone fractures. The positive relationship between milk drinking and an elevated risk of bone fracture is consistent, worldwide.

There are over 70 foods from the plant kingdom that provide not only
calcium, but also are packaged with the many other nutrients essential to
bone health. These foods are free of the cholesterol, lactose, the hormones
and growth factors, and the antibiotic residues found in cow's milk.

Milk drinking is also associated with an elevated risk for a variety of
serious illnesses, including prostate cancer, ovarian cancer, and,
surprisingly, even autism. It may also increase risk of developing Crohn's
disease and Parkinson's disease.

Cow's milk is perhaps the most contaminated food one can consume. The
FDA's own and other data consistently show milk and other dairy products
contain residues of pesticides, herbicides, and industrial chemicals such
as the carcinogen, dioxin. The most recent addition to this list of
contaminants is perchlorate, the explosive ingredient in rocket fuel.

Because milk's calcium is poorly absorbed (humans only absorb about 32% of the calcium in a glass of milk), its sodium, phosphorus, and protein content are
too high, (yes, too much protein!) and every glass exposes us to nearly sixty different hormones and growth factors. Dairy products contain nearly 30 different proteins to which one may have an allergic reaction, and studies show an elevated risk for ovarian cancer and prostate cancer in milk drinkers. Milk is clearly not well suited for human consumption.

Even if people know better than to drink cow's milk, they often consume yogurt or cheese, thinking these are healthy alternatives. Dr. Keon describes the addictive properties contained in dairy, demonstrating why it's so hard for some people to give it up.

How's this for scary information that ought to demonstrate the ills of dairy? If that's not enough, Dr. Keon brings in a broader perspective such as including environmental factors associated with milk production. You need this book, not just to read, but to re-read, and keep for the constant references you'll need as you try to educate others as to how they've been "whitewashed"!

http://www.whitewashthebook.com/

Get your copy of WhiteWash from Amazon.com



Ruth Heidrich PhD is an Ironman Triathlete and author of A Race for Life, CHEF and Senior Fitness.

[TEOTWAIKI]

I've drank a LOT of cow's milk in my life; it was like my body craved it.
It gave me a thick skull and it's difficult for the electro-magnetic radiation to enter and hit my brain.
Perhaps milk has saved me from the targeting agencies, who knows?

[dynamo]

I've drank a LOT of cow's milk in my life; it was like my body craved it.
It gave me a thick skull and it's difficult for the electro-magnetic radiation to enter and hit my brain.
Perhaps milk has saved me from the targeting agencies, who knows?
That would be a bonus, but....frequencies above 10Ghz (used for most aircraft radar) will most likely pass through a human skull, perhaps with some attenuation, just saying...
Higher frequencies definitely will.
Who knows what frequencies are used on targeted individuals?
Not me, that's for sure!

[Bubu]

I've drank a LOT of cow's milk in my life; it was like my body craved it.
It gave me a thick skull and it's difficult for the electro-magnetic radiation to enter and hit my brain.
Perhaps milk has saved me from the targeting agencies, who knows?

good for you. what I have learned though is health debt payment does not come instantly. Normally the payment will be demanded at old age age or when health becomes compromise. as for me I have learned to steer away from manufactured foods. Chemicals from these foods are slow poison. lucky for you that your health is able to keep up with the detox.

[lunaflare]

The mechanized practice of milking is cruel; cows are not only injected with artificial hormones, but their sensitive teats are mishandled and often infected.
Cows are given little sunlight; they are not able to roam freely in pastures nor able to enjoy mothering their young.
Cows are enslaved, traded, bought, sold and bred for profit.

[onawah]

Raw, pasture raised organic cow's milk is much different than factory farmer, pasteurized, homogenized milk.
The osteoporosis epidemic started after "modern" practices became standard, which rendered the calcium difficult to digest and assimilate.
Goat's milk is much better for humans, but again, it's the raw, pasture raised organic that you want.
And the cruelty and unsanitary conditions that factory farmed animals live in cannot be discounted when factoring in the karmic effects on consumers.

[boolacalaca]

What about this:

1) People have been drinking cow's milk for how long --- too long to date,
and we all know the terrible things people from the past have told us about milk
from thousands of years of experience with it...don't we?

2) The FUD Media (Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt) keep reporting alarming statistics on major diseases, even new diseases are popping up. -- cancers, heart disease, auto-immune disease, ad nauseam in the human population. The consensus is all of these have been on the rise. That means they were less in the past, way less, in fact quite a few maladies like exotic auto-immune diseases probably didn't even exist in the past -- a past where people drank lots of cow's milk.

3) Cow's milk today versus cow's milk in the past ---
Past: nice, natural farm setting
Today: corporate factory facilities where cows are crammed into narrow stalls where they live out their miserable lives, artificially pumped full of chemicals, who knows how much of them pass through into the milk, so the cows keep lactating endlessly and so massive antibiotics have to then treat major infections like Mastitis (painful udder infection) and Laminitis (inflammation of the hoof), infections that wind up putting puss into the milk, which then has to be "processed" in corporate vats to make it "edible." Meanwhile, new milk cows are taken away from their mothers at birth and pumped full of growth hormones so they can quickly replace the other, worn-out and diseased cows that drop dead in their stalls and are ground up into McDonald's Big Macs. A normal cow has a lifespan of 40-50 years. A corporate milk cow is auctioned off for slaughter at 4-5 years. What did we learn about the biological effects of stress? Mmmm...

4) Decision: 1) get into a time machine to the past where people on natural farms drank lots of milk without alarm or disease
or
2) reform the way milk is produced

Next, people are going to say gluten is bad for you :idea:
(when in actually most people's reaction is simply an allergic response to GMO wheat and processing chemicals meant to increase shelf-life)
If anything, the heavily processed, highly-sugared and salted non-gluten food they sell at a premium as a substitute will kill you sooner!
Create a problem and sell a product for it!

[AutumnW]

Everything in moderation -- and then moderation has to be redefined A 32% absorption rate of calcium is pretty high though, it seems? Most processed savory meal type foods are slathered in cheese as it tastes good and casein has an addictive component. It's also cheap. Eating well is a political economic story, not just a nutrition thing.

People living in poverty often have neither the money or energy to cook nutritiously. Milk fills a void that kale just can't.

[Akasha]

What about this:.... reform the way milk is produced.....

“Reforming the way milk is produced” may seem like a very sensible idea particularly when you are in Equador, but in practicality, most if not all of the problems mentioned with dairy in the OP are taking place where “reforming the way milk is produced” would result in a product that was far too expensive to be profitable, particularly when one considers the vast amount of money already taken from the tax payer to support the dairy (and meat and egg) industry in the form of subsidies.

[Akasha]

I've drank a LOT of cow's milk in my life; it was like my body craved it.....

Dr. (yes, a real one) Neil Barnard talks about why he thinks such a craving exists. In a word, casomorphins. Watch from 15.00 for that specific info' or better still watch the whole presentation, especially if you are (or know someone) suffering from cancer, heart disease or any form of diabetes (that's not an exhaustive list either). Barnard has helped countless diabetics get off all medication and back to a non-diabetic state simply by following a low fat, plant-based diet.


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[aronia]

Im gluten and dairy intolerant and in a live country that barely have any G M O at all. I sure get sick if i eat anything that contain gluten or dairy. There are other foods and drinks i stay away from too.

11 Ways Gluten And Wheat Can Damage Your Health

https://paleoleap.com/11-ways-gluten-and-wheat-can-damage-your-health/

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What about this:

1) People have been drinking cow's milk for how long --- too long to date,
and we all know the terrible things people from the past have told us about milk
from thousands of years of experience with it...don't we?

2) The FUD Media (Fear-Uncertainty-and-Doubt) keep reporting alarming statistics on major diseases, even new diseases are popping up. -- cancers, heart disease, auto-immune disease, ad nauseam in the human population. The consensus is all of these have been on the rise. That means they were less in the past, way less, in fact quite a few maladies like exotic auto-immune diseases probably didn't even exist in the past -- a past where people drank lots of cow's milk.

3) Cow's milk today versus cow's milk in the past ---
Past: nice, natural farm setting
Today: corporate factory facilities where cows are crammed into narrow stalls where they live out their miserable lives, artificially pumped full of chemicals, who knows how much of them pass through into the milk, so the cows keep lactating endlessly and so massive antibiotics have to then treat major infections like Mastitis (painful udder infection) and Laminitis (inflammation of the hoof), infections that wind up putting puss into the milk, which then has to be "processed" in corporate vats to make it "edible." Meanwhile, new milk cows are taken away from their mothers at birth and pumped full of growth hormones so they can quickly replace the other, worn-out and diseased cows that drop dead in their stalls and are ground up into McDonald's Big Macs. A normal cow has a lifespan of 40-50 years. A corporate milk cow is auctioned off for slaughter at 4-5 years. What did we learn about the biological effects of stress? Mmmm...

4) Decision: 1) get into a time machine to the past where people on natural farms drank lots of milk without alarm or disease
or
2) reform the way milk is produced

Next, people are going to say gluten is bad for you :idea:
(when in actually most people's reaction is simply an allergic response to GMO wheat and processing chemicals meant to increase shelf-life)
If anything, the heavily processed, highly-sugared and salted non-gluten food they sell at a premium as a substitute will kill you sooner!
Create a problem and sell a product for it!

[TEOTWAIKI]

I've drank a LOT of cow's milk in my life; it was like my body craved it.
It gave me a thick skull and it's difficult for the electro-magnetic radiation to enter and hit my brain.
Perhaps milk has saved me from the targeting agencies, who knows?

good for you. what I have learned though is health debt payment does not come instantly. Normally the payment will be demanded at old age age or when health becomes compromise. as for me I have learned to steer away from manufactured foods. Chemicals from these foods are slow poison. lucky for you that your health is able to keep up with the detox.

My health is pretty good despite over 60 years on this earth drinking cow's milk.
Certainly the cow's milk of the 50's and 60's was a different animal, so to speak :)

I've had a full life and no regrets and what comes, may come. Que Sera Sera!

It appeared that TPTB lost it when the aliens blocked human expansion to the moon and beyond.

From that point onwards it has been a downward spiral as they realized they were stuck on the planet (albeit a most beautiful place) for the rest of their lives.

I'm completely OK with that (being stuck on the beautiful planet earth) and only wish human would take care of their home.

[Akasha]

What about this:

1) People have been drinking cow's milk for how long --- too long to date,
and we all know the terrible things people from the past have told us about milk
from thousands of years of experience with it...don't we?.....

Yes we do, and our consumption of it has not been that long, certainly not “too long to date” and only a small percentage of the 200 000 or so years we’ve been around in our modern form.
That approximately half the adult population of the planet has lactose intolerance to one degree or another also speaks to the questionable wisdom of the practice.

from Wiki’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance):


.....Lactose intolerance is a condition in which people have symptoms due to the decreased ability to digest lactose, a sugar found in milk products…..

…..Lactose intolerance is due to not enough of the enzyme lactase in the small intestines to break lactose down into glucose and galactose.[3] There are four types: primary, secondary, developmental, and congenital. Primary lactose intolerance is when the amount of lactase declines as people age…..

…..The percentage of the population that has a decrease in lactase as they age is less than 10% in Northern Europe and as high as 95% in parts of Asia and Africa.[3] Onset is typically in late childhood or adulthood.[1] The ability to digest lactose into adulthood is believed to have developed among some human populations in the last 10,000 years……

[boolacalaca]

What about this:.... reform the way milk is produced.....

“ “reforming the way milk is produced” would result in a product that was far too expensive to be profitable, particularly when one considers the vast amount of money already taken from the tax payer to support the dairy (and meat and egg) industry in the form of subsidies.

Thank you -- you condensed your objection down to its core --- PROFIT.
So-called 1st world countries have all the high-tech, all the high-paid consultants and think tanks, all the resources to do things right.
But they don't want to -- if it's going to affect the bottom line.
It's not that it can't be done, they don't want to.
It's funny how apologies are made for the poor "advanced" countries that can't give up their subsidies and exorbitant methods of greed.

The lifestyle of the 1st world is subsidized on the backs of the rest of the world.
If consumers in the advanced countries want dairy products so much, why should there be any need for subsidies? It's a false narrative anyway, since they are paying higher prices for them either way -- either at the checkout register or in their tax bill. It's the illusion of savings -- but we know how well people like the bubble of their illusions.

[boolacalaca]

What about this:

1) People have been drinking cow's milk for how long --- too long to date,
and we all know the terrible things people from the past have told us about milk
from thousands of years of experience with it...don't we?.....

Yes we do, and our consumption of it has not been that long, certainly not “too long to date” and only a small percentage of the 200 000 or so years we’ve been around in our modern form.
That approximately half the adult population of the planet has lactose intolerance to one degree or another also speaks to the questionable wisdom of the practice.

from Wiki’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactose_intolerance):


.....Lactose intolerance is a condition in which people have symptoms due to the decreased ability to digest lactose, a sugar found in milk products…..



You are what you eat.

What are corporate cows fed? GMO grains.
(the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated --- Gandhi)

GMO has been introduced (for profit) into the general population without fully vetting long-term effects.

We do know that Bt corn is equipped with a gene from the soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which produces Bt-toxin—a pesticide that breaks open the stomach of certain insects and kills them.

Can you tell me what other modified genes are in what you eat - and what the cows are eating? What about the function of those genes?

And then there's epigenetics --

What happens epigenetically to the plants the cows eat?

In GMO plants, epigenetic changes become dangerously unstable and unpredictable...the way genes are expressed are affected by a variety of factors. In human populations, our genes can even be affected by what our grandparents ate. Plants are even more sensitive to epigenetic changes than animals. This could have serious implications when it comes to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). GMO foods and crops can be genetically engineered via insertional mutagenesis, the process of inserting foreign genetic materials into normal genes. Epigenetics questions the wisdom of this, suggesting that genes can express themselves differently based on their environment. This means no matter how well-tested Big Biotech claims GMO crops are (and these are tests paid for by the biotech company, with the outcomes revealed only if they are favorable), there are simply too many biological and environmental factors at play to know what a foreign gene will do in a different organism. According to Marcello Buiatti, professor of genetics at the University of Florence, there is evidence that genes resulting from insertional mutagenesis may be less stable than normal genes, and that the current ways in which Big Biotech and regulatory bodies assess the safety of GMO is, in his words, “far below the level of sufficiency to be able to predict any toxicity or any unintended effect of a plant.” What is known about GMOs is very little compared to what is unknown. GMO producers have so far not only blocked independent research on their product; they have blocked labeling of GMO foods. Imagine: they are so proud of their product, they do not even want you to know you are buying it.

And what happens to you when you drink cow's milk epigenetically modified by GMO grains?

"In the nutritional field, epigenetics is exceptionally important, because nutrients and bioactive food components can modify epigenetic phenomena and alter the expression of genes at the transcriptional level. Folate, vitamin B-12, methionine, choline, and betaine can affect DNA methylation and histone methylation through altering 1-carbon metabolism. Two metabolites of 1-carbon metabolism can affect methylation of DNA and histones: S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet)5, which is a methyl donor for methylation reactions, and S-adenosylhomocysteine (AdoHcy), which is a product inhibitor of methyltransferases. Thus, theoretically, any nutrient, bioactive component, or condition that can affect AdoMet or AdoHcy levels in the tissue can alter the methylation of DNA and histones. Other water-soluble B vitamins like biotin, niacin, and pantothenic acid also play important roles in histone modifications. Biotin is a substrate of histone biotinylation. Niacin is involved in histone ADP-ribosylation as a substrate of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase as well as histone acetylation as a substrate of Sirt1, which functions as histone deacetylase (HDAC) (1). Pantothenic acid is a part of CoA to form acetyl-CoA, which is the source of acetyl group in histone acetylation. Bioactive food components directly affect enzymes involved in epigenetic mechanisms. For instance, genistein and tea catechin affects DNA methyltransferases (Dnmt). Resveratrol, butyrate, sulforaphane, and diallyl sulfide inhibit HDAC and curcumin inhibits histone acetyltransferases (HAT). Altered enzyme activity by these compounds may affect physiologic and pathologic processes during our lifetime by altering gene expression...DNA methylation, which modifies a cytosine base at the CpG dinucleotide residues with methyl groups, is catalyzed by Dnmt and regulates gene expression patterns by altering chromatin structures. Currently, 5 different Dnmt are known: Dnmt1, Dnmt2, Dnmt 3a, Dnmt3b and DnmtL. Dnmt1 is a maintenance Dnmt and Dnmt 3a, 3b, and L are de novo Dnmt. The function of Dnmt2 is not yet clear. By affecting these Dnmt during our lifetime, nutrients and bioactive food components can change global DNA methylation, which is associated with chromosomal integrity, as well as gene-specific promoter DNA methylation, which is closely associated with gene expression. Furthermore, these Dnmts work together with enzymes that catalyze other epigenetic phenomena, and changes in the activity of these enzymes may be involved in the development of various diseases."
http://advances.nutrition.org/content/1/1/8.full

When Big Pharma-paid influence fills medical journals and medical schools with their propaganda, can we say we get valid diagnosis of disease anymore?

Crohn's disease and lactose intolerance share many of the same symptoms.
Crohn's disease is a serious and chronic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD).
Both are related to the gut - right where the GMO food is processed.

Have the expressions of GMO genes in cows and us epigenetically created a variable situation where disease expression may morph depending on the individual, their genetic background, and the extenuating circumstances of their lifestyle?

No one can say.

And yet so many automatically jump to causes -- before ever nailing down the circumstances in play.

[Akasha]

What about this:.... reform the way milk is produced.....

“ “reforming the way milk is produced” would result in a product that was far too expensive to be profitable, particularly when one considers the vast amount of money already taken from the tax payer to support the dairy (and meat and egg) industry in the form of subsidies.

Thank you -- you condensed your objection down to its core --- PROFIT.
So-called 1st world countries have all the high-tech, all the high-paid consultants and think tanks, all the resources to do things right.
But they don't want to -- if it's going to affect the bottom line.
It's not that it can't be done, they don't want to.
It's funny how apologies are made for the poor "advanced" countries that can't give up their subsidies and exorbitant methods of greed.

The lifestyle of the 1st world is subsidized on the backs of the rest of the world.
If consumers in the advanced countries want dairy products so much, why should there be any need for subsidies? It's a false narrative anyway, since they are paying higher prices for them either way -- either at the checkout register or in their tax bill. It's the illusion of savings -- but we know how well people like the bubble of their illusions.

"They want dairy products so much" for the same reason everyone across the planet does: addiction (as Neil Barnard explained here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?96817-The-Disturbing-Truth-About-Cow-s-Milk&p=1142616&viewfull=1#post1142616)).

The tax aspect isn't necessarily a false narrative when one considers that a large portion of the consumers of cheap dairy (and other animal products) are those too poor to pay any meaningful taxes.

Regarding your second post about GMOs, Hungary, where I live has a blanket ban on all GMOs whether imported or grown within its borders. But even if one removes the GMO issue from the debate, one has still yet to remove the casomorphin aspect, and that's before the ethical aspects of forced impregnation, infant theft, premature slaughter etc... are addressed too.

Btw, my objection to dairy is an ethical one - the golden rule and all that.

[boolacalaca]

[QUOTE=Akasha;1142613][QUOTE=boolacalaca;1142530]What about this:.... reform the way milk is produced.....

The tax aspect isn't necessarily a false narrative when one considers that a large portion of the consumers of cheap dairy (and other animal products) are those too poor to pay any meaningful taxes.



I'm not sure if citing the poor proportionally as significant in the tax question because of their large consumption relative to other groups bears out.

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https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400530/pdf/DBrief/3_milk_consumption_0506.pdf

And the concept of wanting milk because of addiction is a leap.
If so, then we must really examine all the things people like or consume repeatedly as an addiction.
Wow - the whole population then needs an intervention, a 12-step program, or something because, giving this criteria, it's a society of raving addicts.
I'm going to look at the phytochemicals and sulforaphane in broccoli a whole different way from now on.

[Akasha]

....the concept of wanting milk because of addiction is a leap....

Perhaps prepare to jump then (or at least give it some consideration :) ). It's not as crazy as it sounds, in fact as a means of keeping a weening calf returning to the teat, it's genius.


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[boolacalaca]

....the concept of wanting milk because of addiction is a leap....

Perhaps prepare to jump then (or at least give it some consideration :) ). It's not as crazy as it sounds, in fact as a means of keeping a weening calf returning to the teat, it's genius.

Interesting.
By the way, as long as we're being concerned,
sugar has been proven more addictive than cocaine and the cause of all sorts of nasty bodily malfunctions and disease.
Dare to say it causes much more harm than milk -- think obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, fatty liver disease, and cancer.
In fact, the recent yearly U.S. death total from heart disease: 614,348 from stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 133,103 from diabetes: 76,488
I haven't yet found the exact figures for deaths from milk.

It goes without saying that the anti-milk people are also avoiding and crusading against sugar just as fervently
since the need is obviously more pressing statistically.

In fact, I wonder the last time anti-milk people even had sugar?
Silly question. Of course, concerned and health-conscious people would have already avoided it, just like milk.
Although it's hard to get away from - you know they put it in everything.
:cake:

Which Foods May Be Addictive?
The Roles of Processing, Fat Content, and Glycemic Load
Erica M. Schulte, Nicole M. Avena, and Ashley N. Gearhardt1
NCBI - National Center for Biotechnical Information
US National Library of Medicine - National Institutes of Health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4334652/

[boolacalaca]

Interesting study from the NCBI --

Casomorphins are in human breast milk
but the bovine version appears in store-bought formula.

Researchers found that babies receiving casomorphins naturally from their mothers
had normal psychomotor development and muscle tone.
Babies receiving the bovine version showed delay in this development.

Beta-casomorphins-7 in infants on different type of feeding and different levels of psychomotor development.
Kost NV1, Sokolov OY, Kurasova OB, Dmitriev AD, Tarakanova JN, Gabaeva MV, Zolotarev YA, Dadayan AK, Grachev SA, Korneeva EV, Mikheeva IG, Zozulya AA.
Author information
Abstract

Casomorphins are the most important during the first year of life, when postnatal formation is most active and milk is the main source of both nutritive and biologically active material for infants. This study was conducted on a total of 90 infants, of which 37 were fed with breast milk and 53 were fed with formula containing cow milk. The study has firstly indicated substances with immunoreactivity of human (irHCM) and bovine (irBCM) beta-casomorphins-7 in blood plasma of naturally and artificially fed infants, respectively. irHCM and irBCM were detected both in the morning before feeding (basal level), and 3h after feeding. Elevation of irHCM and irBCM levels after feeding was detected mainly in infants in the first 3 months of life. Chromatographic characterization of the material with irBCM has demonstrated that it has the same molecular mass and polarity as synthetic bovine beta-casomorphin-7. The highest basal irHCM was observed in breast-fed infants with normal psychomotor development and muscle tone. In contrast, elevated basal irBCM was found in formula-fed infants showing delay in psychomotor development and heightened muscle tone. Among formula-fed infants with normal development, the rate of this parameter directly correlated to basal irBCM. The data indicate that breast feeding has an advantage over artificial feeding for infants' development during the first year of life and support the hypothesis for deterioration of bovine casomorphin elimination as a risk factor for delay in psychomotor development and other diseases such as autism.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19576256

The catch is -- other studies indicate the baby will get the bovine version through mother's milk
if the mother drinks a lot of bovine milk.

So - It's scientifically demonstrated casomorphins are good for infant development
---- it also infers where we should all get our casomorphins from :bigsmile:

[Akasha]

.....So - It's scientifically demonstrated casomorphins are good for infant development.....

.....if they are provided by the mother's breast milk.....


.....it also infers where we should all get our casomorphins from :bigsmile:....

Absolutely.......until the weening period ends. After that it would be a bit odd, suckling from your mother I mean.


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That said, suckling from a female of another species is far more alien.


https://onetouchnewlife.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/a-aaa-i-love-milk.jpg

[conk]

Didn't read the whole thread, but hope someone made the distinction between raw and processed dairy. Raw milk can be a healing food. Processed milk is dead, pus filled junk. Raw or processed, anyone with cancer should avoid it, because of the IGF-1 growth hormone.

[Akasha]

Didn't read the whole thread, but hope someone made the distinction between raw and processed dairy. Raw milk can be a healing food. Processed milk is dead, pus filled junk. Raw or processed, anyone with cancer should avoid it, because of the IGF-1 growth hormone.

Not true and true.

Raw milk has just as much pus in it because mastitis (infection of the udder) is prevalent in any commercial milking operation (hence blanket antibiotic administration, leading to increasing impotence of said drugs in the human population) regardless of whether the product is then pasteurised or not.

Spot on about IGF-1 though!

[conk]

Didn't read the whole thread, but hope someone made the distinction between raw and processed dairy. Raw milk can be a healing food. Processed milk is dead, pus filled junk. Raw or processed, anyone with cancer should avoid it, because of the IGF-1 growth hormone.

Not true and true.

Raw milk has just as much pus in it because mastitis (infection of the udder) is prevalent in any commercial milking operation (hence blanket antibiotic administration, leading to increasing impotence of said drugs in the human population) regardless of whether the product is then pasteurised or not.

Spot on about IGF-1 though!

Agree about the pus, but don't generally associate raw milk with commercial operations, as it is subjected to heat pasteurization almost immediately.

[Akasha]

Didn't read the whole thread, but hope someone made the distinction between raw and processed dairy. Raw milk can be a healing food. Processed milk is dead, pus filled junk. Raw or processed, anyone with cancer should avoid it, because of the IGF-1 growth hormone.

Not true and true.

Raw milk has just as much pus in it because mastitis (infection of the udder) is prevalent in any commercial milking operation (hence blanket antibiotic administration, leading to increasing impotence of said drugs in the human population) regardless of whether the product is then pasteurised or not.

Spot on about IGF-1 though!

Agree about the pus, but don't generally associate raw milk with commercial operations, as it is subjected to heat pasteurization almost immediately.

So we're in agreement about the pus and the IGF-1. Great! How about the blanket antibiotics administered regardless of whether their milk will be "raw" or pasteurised.....or the seldom-mentioned but ever-present bovine leukemia virus and bovine A.I.D.S - both afflictions in no way exclusive to cattle providing pasteurised milk?

Goes to the kitchen to make more almond milk.......

[conk]

[QUOTE=conk;1144313][QUOTE=Akasha;1143094][QUOTE=conk;1143050]....So we're in agreement about the pus and the IGF-1. Great! How about the blanket antibiotics administered regardless of whether their milk will be "raw" or pasteurised.....or the seldom-mentioned but ever-present bovine leukemia virus and bovine A.I.D.S - both afflictions in no way exclusive to cattle providing pasteurised milk?

Goes to the kitchen to make more almond milk.......

Yep, they just can't leave well enough alone. If I drink raw milk it's always from a local, small farm or from a neighbor with only Ole Betsy giving milk. They don't administer antibiotics. Was not fully aware of the two disease conditions. Yikes, that's enough to abstain forever. I'm with you on the almond milk. It's so easy to make at home. Now, where is my cheese cloth.