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The Truth About MILK! QUESTION: Is milk really harmful, and what substitute recommendations can be made? ANSWER: Dr. Theresa Warner says: With celebrities, sports stars, actors and actresses donning milk moustaches, it would seem that milk is the perfect food. Yet, this is hardly the case. Physicians from Dr. Benjamin Spock to Dr. Frank Oski, M.D., director of pediatrics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, have made public their concern about potential health risks from children consuming cow's milk. Each person in the U.S. consumes, on the average, 375 pounds of dairy products each year. One of every seven dollars spent for food in this country goes for the purchase of milk and milk products. In fact, these items make up the second largest food expense, ranking behind only the combined expenses for meat, fish, poultry and eggs. The Federal Trade Commission in April of 1974 issued a "proposed complaint" against the California Milk Producers Advisory Board and their advertising agency. It cited the slogan, "Everybody needs milk" was false, misleading, and deceptive advertising. The commission judged that testimonials from the likes of Florence Henderson and Mark Spitz posed an inaccurate picture of the value of milk. Quickly the new slogan "Milk Has Something For Everybody" arose. I doubt they meant antibiotics, hormones, steroids and chemicals. The fact is, most animals are breast-fed exclusively until they have tripled their birth weight. In human infants this occurs around the age of one. Breast-feeding is a kind of natural immunization for the infant, providing the mother's antibodies to protect and support the child's immature immune system. Cow's milk was designed to bring a calf to a 2,000 pound cow in one year's time. It was not meant for human infants. No animals, except for humans, consume milk after being weaned. Sometime between one-and-a-half and four years of age, we gradually lose lactose activity in our small intestines. Many infants drink between one and two quarts of milk on a daily basis. Although this acts to satisfy their hunger, they are often left with little room for vital iron-containing foods. Cow's milk can produce iron deficiency by providing little dietary iron itself, and at the same time producing iron loss by inducing gastrointestinal bleeding. Iron deficiency anemia makes children act inattentive, apathetic, and irritable. They will cry a great deal encouraging mother to do what she knows best: provide a soothing bottle of milk -- which only compounds the problem. The American Heart Association has strongly urged people to reduce their consumption of milk and dairy products due to milk's relationship to atherosclerosis. Diarrhea, cramps, acne and skin rashes have also been linked to drinking whole cow's milk. And if these don't provide enough evidence that milk is anything but a wonder food, add leukemia, multiple sclerosis, ear infections, rheumatoid arthritis, juvenile diabetes, and bronchitis to the list. Many mothers give their children milk to build strong, healthy bones and teeth. The irony is that milk may actually LEAD TO TOOTH DECAY. Dr. Frances Castano, a dental researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that milk may actually destroy the teeth of children who are given a bottle to go to sleep with. This common practice can lead to very rapid decay. Many parents fear that removing dairy products will hurt their child due to the calcium they will lose. This argument is not valid. Cow's milk contains 1,200 milligrams of calcium per quart compared to human milk which has only 300 milligrams. However, infants receiving human milk actually absorb more calcium into their bodies, due to the fact that cow's milk is so rich in calcium. The more studies that are done, the less clear it becomes just how much calcium humans really need. Other countries -- African nations, for example -- consume far less calcium and tend to have a lower incidence of osteoporosis. It is apparent that humans can adjust to variations in the amount of calcium in their diet. The body simply absorbs more (in an attempt to meet needs) when reduced quantities are ingested. (Drs. Theresa and Stuart Warner, whose New Jersey practice is comprised of 60% children under seven, present 40 pediatric programs around the world each year for chiropractic associations and colleges. The Warners are the founders of "Kids Day America/International," and founded the non-profit World Children's Wellness Foundation. Comments or questions about issues raised in this column or regarding children's wellness and chiropractic in general may be directed to Dr. Teresa Warner by phone at 732/295-5437; fax, 732/295-1166; or e-mail, info@chiropediatrics.com.) |
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Milk Does The Body BAD! Terribly BAD! PETA is preparing to launch a new anti-milk ad campaign to run in high school newspapers, featuring a young man losing his "liquid lunch" through his nose and mouth. Showing that PETA not only condemns the gas-giving, obesity-inducing, acne-producing beverage for its deleterious health effects but also for its producers' treatment of mother cows, the text reads, "If you knew how dairy cows suffered, you'd spew!" The ad will appear in schools in Los Angeles, Austin, and Miami, which are currently test-marketing milk vending machines. The nauseating ad is designed to reach high school students now heavily targeted by the dairy industry, which is struggling to revive dwindling sales by putting brightly colored bottles of flavored milk in school cafeteria vending machines. The sugary concoctions, which pack a whopping 10 grams of saturated fat per bottle—almost one-half of the recommended daily allowance—and 460 calories (more than double that of a serving of cola), are definitely not health drinks. As America's teens grow fatter, the last thing they need is to pump themselves full of yet another fatty snack. Not only will they put on pounds, PETA says, the fat in milk is also linked to greasy hair, pimples, and gas. Milk consumption also puts teens on the road to adult diseases linked to the consumption of meat and dairy products, i.e., heart disease, cancer, stroke, and even osteoporosis—the very disease milk is supposed to prevent. PETA also has a big beef with the way the dairy industry exploits calves and mother cows, which it treats as nothing more than "milk machines." Male calves born on dairy farms are taken from their loving mothers shortly after birth, put into crates so small that they can't even turn around, and, after 14 weeks in near total darkness, shipped off to slaughter to make veal parmigiana and other veal dishes. Many of the babies stumble to their deaths because their legs are so swollen from balancing on slippery, waste-covered, slatted floors or concrete. For more information about the cow's milk and the dairy industry, visit www.MilkSucks.com |
| ALL Dairy Products Are Health HAZARDS! Dairy products are a health hazard. They contain no fiber or complex carbohydrates and are laden with saturated fat and cholesterol. They are contaminated with cow's blood and pus and are frequently contaminated with pesticides, hormones, and antibiotics. Dairy products are linked to allergies, constipation, obesity, heart disease, cancer, and other diseases. The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's leading authority on child care, spoke out against feeding cow's milk to children, saying it can cause anemia, allergies, and insulin-dependent diabetes and in the long term, will set kids up for obesity and heart disease, America's number one cause of death. And dairy products may actually cause osteoporosis, not prevent it, since their high-protein content leaches calcium from the body. Population studies, backed up by a groundbreaking Harvard study of more than 75,000 nurses, suggest that drinking milk can actually cause osteoporosis. |
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Animal Cruelty! Corporate-owned factories where cows are warehoused in huge sheds and treated like milk machines have replaced most small family farms. With genetic manipulation and intensive production technologies, it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a day— 10 times more than they would produce in nature. To keep milk production as high as possible, farmers artificially inseminate cows every year. Growth hormones and unnatural milking schedules cause dairy cows' udders to become painful and so heavy that they sometimes drag on the ground, resulting in frequent infections and overuse of antibiotics. Cows -- like all mammals -- make milk to feed their own babies -- not humans. Male calves, the "byproducts" of the dairy industry, endure 14 to17 weeks of torment in veal crates so small that they can't even turn around. Female calves often replace their old, worn-out mothers, or are slaughtered soon after birth for the rennet in their stomachs (an ingredient of most commercial cheeses). They are often kept in tiny crates or tethered in stalls for the first few months of their lives, only to grow up to become "milk machines" like their mothers Cow's milk is an inefficient food source. Cows, like humans, expend the majority of their food intake simply leading their lives. It takes a great deal of grain and other foodstuffs cycled through cows to produce a small amount of milk. And not only is milk a waste of energy and water, the production of milk is also a disastrous source of water pollution. A dairy cow produces 120 pounds of waste every day -- equal to that of two dozen people, but with no toilets, sewers, or treatment plants. In Lancaster County, Pa., manure from dairy cows is destroying the Chesapeake Bay, and in California, which produces one-fifth of the country's total supply of milk, the manure from dairy farms has poisoned vast expanses of underground water, rivers, and streams. In the Central Valley of California, the cows produce as much excrement as a city of 21 million people, and even a smallish farm of 200 cows will produce as much nitrogen as in the sewage from a community of 5,000 to 10,000 people, according to a U.S. Senate report on animal waste. |
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MILK Causes Osteoporosis! "The myth that osteoporosis is caused by calcium deficiency was created to sell dairy products and calcium supplements. There's no truth to it. American women are among the biggest consumers of calcium in the world, and they still have one of the highest levels of osteoporosis in the world. And eating even more dairy products and calcium supplements is not going to change that fact." —Dr. John McDougall, The McDougall Program for Women (2000) Osteoporosis is a debilitating disease characterized by low bone mass and deteriorating bone tissue that affects tens of millions of Americans and causes 1.5 million fractures annually. The annual cost of treatment totals more than billion. While some people suffering from osteoporosis experience recurring back pain, loss of height, and spinal deformities, many don't even know they have the disease until a bone fracture occurs. According to the National Osteoporosis Foundation, one in two women over the age of 50, and one in eight men, will experience an osteoporosis-related fracture. The dairy industry has a powerful hold on the nutrition industry in this country; it pays huge numbers of dietitians, doctors, and researchers to push dairy, spending more than million annually, just at the national level, to retain a market for its products. The dairy industry has infiltrated schools, bought off sports stars, celebrities, and politicians, pushing all the while an agenda based on profit, rather than public health. Dr. Walter Willett, a veteran nutrition researcher at the Harvard School of Public Health, says that calcium consumption "has become like a religious crusade," overshadowing true preventive measures such as physical exercise. To hear the dairy industry tell it, if you consume three glasses of milk daily, your bones will be stronger, and you can rest safely knowing that osteoporosis is not in your future. |
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MILK Makes You FAT!!! When you put a "milk mustache" on your lips, you are likely to add extra inches to your hips. Each year, the average American consumes almost 600 pounds of dairy products, which is about three times more dairy products than grains and almost five times more dairy than fruit. Considering all the dairy and meat being eaten, it’s no wonder that more and more Americans are fighting the battle of the bulge. In fact, 59 percent of American men and 49 percent of American women are overweight, putting them at risk for heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and early death. According to medical experts, 300,000 Americans die from weight-related illnesses every year, making fat the country’s number-two cause of preventable deaths (smoking is number one). According to researchers at Tufts University, obesity "is now of epidemic proportions in the United States" and "high-fat diets … are strongly linked" to skyrocketing obesity rates. Adults aren’t the only ones putting on the pounds: The number of overweight kids has more than doubled in the last three decades and is now at "epidemic" levels, according to nutritionists. Two 1995 studies published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association found that meat and dairy foods are the main sources of fat in children’s diets. After reviewing 28 studies investigating the relationship between fat intake and weight, researchers discovered that the rate of obesity has increased in nations where fat consumption has risen. Their findings, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, also showed that simply by switching to a low-fat diet, people can decrease their caloric intake by up to 30 percent. Dump the meat and dairy, and you’re likely to lose those unwanted pounds! Give the bottle the boot! Instead, try delicious soy or rice milk, soy cheese, Tofutti ice cream, and tofu sour cream and cream cheese. All are widely available at health food stores and many supermarkets. |
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For Children Up To 2-3 Years Old, The Breast Is BEST! “There are 4,000 species of mammals, and they all make a different milk. Human milk is made for human infants and it meets all their specific nutrient needs.” —Ruth Lawrence, M.D., professor of pediatrics and obstetrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine; spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “Failure to utilize breast milk as the food for all children for at least the first year of life leads to increased risk of poor health and development for both infants and mothers.” —United States Department of Health and Human Services (Web site) Studies show that: up to 30 percent of type 1 diabetes cases could be prevented by removing cow’s milk from the diet of 90 percent of the population in the first three months; that bottle-fed infants were at almost twice the risk of developing respiratory illness during the first seven years of life; that cognitive development is significantly better in breast-fed children and the developmental benefits of breast-feeding increased with duration of feeding; and that breast-feeding decreases rates of death for infants, including SIDS. Human breast milk is, of course, the ideal food for human infants. The advantages of breast-feeding for the mother and infant are numerous and well supported by more than two decades of research. Breast milk has the perfect mix of nutrients; it is always fresh, clean, and the right temperature; it contains antibodies that help protect a baby from infections; and it’s easy for the baby to digest. In addition to the health benefits just outlined, breast-fed infants have lower rates of hospital admissions, ear infections, diarrhea, rashes, allergies, and an array of other medical problems than bottle-fed babies. Until around 1950, almost all U.S. newborns were nursed. In the last 50 years, however, large-scale manufacturing and aggressive marketing of infant formula has resulted in decreasing rates of breast-feeding. As Representative Carolyn Maloney has noted, “The United States has one of the lowest breast-feeding rates of all industrialized nations and one of the highest rates of infant mortality.” Indeed, the states with the lowest rates of breast-feeding also have the highest rates of infant mortality. |
